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- ______ altering drugs are the most popular
- Mood
- Ritalin use has risen by ______%
- 740
- u.s used ___ more ritalin than world combined
- 5x
- _______ kids has a prescription for ritalin
- 1/15
- _______ kids diagnosed with ADHD in America
- 6 million
- What is Prozac?
- antidepressant
- between ___________ there were ________ suicides with Ritalin
- 1988-1992; 16,000
- how many children committed suicide within one year of taking zoloft?
- 2000
- ______ kids is on an antidepressant drug
- 1/70
- How much earlier do girld reach puberty than boys? and why is this?
- 2 years, girls are advanced in physical maturity since the prenatal period
- hormonal changes occur around what age? what is responsible?
- 8-9; growth hormone and thryoxine increase
- What are primary sexual characteristics?
- reproductive organs
- What are secondary sexual characteristics?
- visible on outside of body
- In adolescence, neurons in the brain become more responsive to what type of transmitters during puberty? As a result, what happens when they encounter different events?
- excitatory transmitters; react more strongly to stressful events/ experience pleasureable stimuli more intensly
- what happens to girls who matured earlier than their peers? What happens to boys who mature early?
- poor quality relationships with family/friends, smaller social networks, and lower life satisfaction into early adulthood; boys= nothing
- According to Erikson, what is the major personality achievement of adolescence?
- identity
- growth spurt in girls occurs at what age? Boys?
- girls= 10; boys=12.5