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• bodily changes, including a dramatic increase in height and weight, as well as changes in the body’s fat and muscle content.
• sexual maturation, including change in the reproductive organs and the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics, such as facial and body hair and growth of the breasts.
• primary sex characteristics, which refer to organs that are

  directly involved in reproduction.
• secondary sex characteristics, which are physical signs of maturity

  not directly linked to the reproductive organs.
• Menarche, the onset of menstruation, typically occurs at about age
• spermarche, the first spontaneous ejaculation of sperm-laden fluid.
• estrogen is often described as a “female hormone”
• androgen as a “male hormone"
• Anorexia Nervosa The individual maintains a body

  weight that is below a minimally normal

  level for age, sex, developmental trajectory,

  and physical health. Individuals with this

  disorder typically display an intense fear of

  gaining weight or becoming fat.
• Bulimia Nervosa Occurrence of excessive food consumption must be accompanied by

  a sense of lack of control to be considered a binge eating. An indicator of loss of control is the

  inability to refrain from eating or to stop eating once started.
• LAWRENCE KOHLBERG’S THEORY OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT
• Preconventional morality is the earliest period of moral development.
• Conventional, ,During this time, adolescents and adults internalize the moral standards they have learned from their role models and from society.
• Postconventional At this level of moral development, people develop an understanding of abstract principles of morality.