Puberty: the sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing
Primary sexual characteristics:
-body structures that make reproduction possible
Secondary sexual characteristics
-non reproductive sexual characteristics
-widening of the hips
-deeper voice
-body hair
-breast development
Landmarks for puberty
-menarche for girls (period)
-first ejaculation for boys - spermarche
- Adulthood
- All physical abilities essentially peak by our mid twenties
- Physical Milestones
- Menopause- natural rate ending of a woman's ability to reproduce
- These are physical symptoms led by a lack of estrogen
- Men do not experience anything like menopause
- Types of Intelligence
- Crystalized I - Accumulated knowledge
- Increases with age
- Fluid I - Ability to solve problems quickly and think abstractly
- Peaks in the 20's and then decreases over time
- Alzheimer's Disease
- A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, language, and physical functioning
- Runs its course in 5 to 20 years
- Caused by a deterioration of neurons that produce the neurotransmitter... Acetylocholine
- Life Expectancy
- Life expectancy keeps increasing - now about 75
- Women outlive men by about 4 years
- But more men are conceived 126 to 100, then 105 to 100 by birth. In other words, men die easier
- Death
- Elizabeth Kublerr Ross's stages of death
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
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