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The age at which puberty begins has implications for the way adolescents feel about themselves--as well as how others treat them. boys have a distinct advantage over boys.
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According to Kohlberg, people pass through a series of stages in the evolution of their sense of justice and in the kind of reasoning they use to make moral judgments. Largely because of the various cognitive limitations that Piaget described, preadolescent children tend to think either in terms of concrete, unvarying rules or the rules of society. Adolescents, however, can reason on a higher plane, having typically reached Piaget's stage of cognitive development.
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During Erikson's stage, adolescents try to determine what is unique about themselves.
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Late in life, the last of the , ego-integrity-versus-despair, results either in a sense of accomplishment, signifying success in resolving the difficulties presented by this stage of life, or a failure to resolve the difficulties, resulting in regret over what might have been achieved but was not.
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More teenagers and young adults die from than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia and influenza, and chronic lung disease combined.





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