John W. Santrock,
University of Texas, Dallas
| AIDS | acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a primarily sexually transmitted disease caused by the HIV virus, which destroys the body's immune system.
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| androgens | the main class of male sex hormones.
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| anorexia nervosa | an eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation.
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| bulimia nervosa | in this eating disorder, the individual consistently follows a binge-and-purge eating pattern.
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| estrogens | the main class of female sex hormones.
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| hormones | powerful chemical substances secreted by the endocrine glands and carried through the body by the bloodstream.
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| inventionist view | the view that adolescence is a sociohistorical creation. Especially important in this view are the sociohistorical circumstances at the beginning of the twentieth century, a time when legislation was enacted that ensured the dependency of youth and made their move into the economic sphere more manageable.
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| menarche | first menstruation.
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| puberty | a period of rapid skeletal and sexual maturation that occurs mainly in early adolescence.
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| sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) | diseases that are contracted primarily through sexual contact. This contact is not limited to vaginal intercourse but includes oral-genital contact and anal-genital contact as well.
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| spermarche | a boy's first ejaculation of semen.
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| storm-and-stress view | G. Stanley Hall's concept that adolescence is a turbulent time charged with conflict and mood swings.
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education