ADOLESCENCE DOOR TO ADULTHOOD

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ADOLESCENCE DOOR TO ADULTHOOD
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Adolescence

• What are developmental tasks?
• How many are there and which have you achieved
  already?
• Explain your answer
• Name two things that occur, cognitively, during
  adolescence
• Do review questions 2-4 on back of packet

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ANSWERS

• Developmental Tasks are tasks that occur during a
  particular age period for a person to continue
  his or her growth toward adulthood
• During adolescents your abstract and logical
  thinking skills develop, your memory improves and
  your thinking becomes more flexible

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TERMS

• Cognitive
• Intellectual development
• Developmental Tasks
• Something that needs to occur during a particular
  age period for a person to continue his or her
  growth toward becoming an adult
• Personal Identity
• Factors you believe make you unique
• Empathy
• Ability to feel what others feel, to put yourself
  in someone elses place

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Puberty Info for Boys and Girls

• What causes the physical and emotional changes
  that occur during puberty?
• What term refers to the rate at which the body
  cells produce energy?
• List 3 secondary sex characteristics in females
• List 3 secondary sex characteristics in males
• What gland controls the endocrine system and
  begins onset of puberty?
• Identify the male and female gonads.