PSY 230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: World Gastroenterology Organisation, Frontal Lobe, These Girls
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Puberty was often society"s signal to find a spouse. Lasts about five years from start to finish, typically is a pre-teen and early adolescent change. Puberty rite - in traditional societies, people might celebrate the changes in a coming-of-age ceremony. Were emotional events, carefully scripted to highlight a young person"s entrance into adulthood. Children were removed from their families and asked to perform challenging tasks. For girls, mensuration was the standard marker to celebrate one"s arrival into womanhood. Secular trend in puberty - decline in puberty. Researchers use this as their benchmark for charting the secular trend because it is an obvious sign of being able to have a child. Spermarche - first ejaculation of live sperm for males. One system, located in the adrenal glands at the top of the kidneys, begins to release its hormones at about age 6 to 8, several years before children show observable signs of puberty.
