Psycology chapter 4
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- initiation rites
- ceremonies or rituals in which an individual is accepted into a new position
- puberty
- sexual maturation
- menarche
- the first menstrual period
- spermarche
- period during which males achieve first ejaculation
- asynchrony
- the condition during adolescence in which the growth in body parts is uneven
- rationalization
- where an individual seeks to explain an emotion to help self-esteem
- identity crisis
- a period of inner conflict when an adolescence worries intensely about who they are
- social learning theory
- Bandura's view on human developement
- Erikson
- created the theory of identity crisis
- Marcia
- Agrees with Erikson and distinguished 4 attempts for adolescences to achieve an identity
- clique
- a small exclusive group of people
- conformity
- acting with some specified authority
- anorexia nervosa
- a serious eating disorder in which the person starves themselves
- bulimia nervosa
- a serious eating disorder in which the person overeats and vomits after meals
- gender identity
- the sex group to which an individual biologically belongs
- gender role
- the set of behaviors the society considers appropriate for each sex
- gender stereotypes
- an oversimplified or distorted generalization about the characteristics of men and woman
- androgynous
- combining or confusing traditionally male and female characteristics
- gender schema
- a set of behaviors organized around how males and females should think and behave