Human Development, Papalia 13th Edition, Chapter 11 Test Bank.

adolescence - Answer development transition between childhood and adulthood entailing major physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes puberty - Answer process by which a person attains sexual maturity and the ability to reproduce primary sex characteristics - Answer organs directly related to reproduction, which enlarge and mature during adolescence secondary sex characteristics - Answer physiological signs of sexual maturation that do not involve the sex organs adolescent growth spurt - Answer sharp increase in height and weight that precedes sexual maturity spermache - Answer boys first ejaculation menarche - Answer girls first menstration secular trend - Answer trend that can be seen by observing several generations, such as the trend toward earlier attainment of adult height and sexual maturity, which began a century ago in some countries socio emotional network - Answer sensitive to social and emotional stimuli *peer influence cognitive control network - Answer regulates responses to stimuli body image - Answer descriptive and evaluative beliefs about one's appearance anorexia nervosa - Answer eating disorder characterized by self-starvation bulimia nervosa - Answer eating disorders in which a person regularly eats huge quantities of food and then purges the body of laxatives, induced vomiting, fasting, or excessive exercise