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EPSY 321 Exam 1 questions wellanswered to pass
The Endocrine System - correct answer ✔✔produces, circulates, and regulates hormones
Glands - correct answer ✔✔organs that stimulate particular parts of the body to respond in specific ways
to particular hormones for survival and body regulation development
Biosocial (1) - correct answer ✔✔extremely biological
G. Stanley Hall - storm and stress is biological
Dual Systems Theories/Maturational Imbalance- simultaneous development of 2 brain systems
Organismic (2) - correct answer ✔✔recognizes biological changes but considers contextual forces also
Sigmund Freud
Erikson (crisis)
Piaget (concrete-abstract thought)
Learning (3) - correct answer ✔✔believe the processes of human behavior are the same during this time
and any other time
Behaviorism (Skinner operant conditioning-reinforcement and punishment)
Social Learning Theory (Bandura)
Social (4) - correct answer ✔✔How adolescents come of age, cohort
Adolescent Marginality - Kurt Lewin and Edgar Friedenburg - generation gaps
Intergenerational Conflict- Karl Mannheim and James Coleman - historical cohorts meaning different
values and beleifs
Ecological - correct answer ✔✔middle of the biological and enviornmental scale
,Historical/Anthropological (6) - correct answer ✔✔social, political, and economic forces at the given time
Anthropological - Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead: culturally defined experience (industrial vs
nonindustrial)
Inventionist (7) - correct answer ✔✔extremely environmental
entirely a social invention
Onset/Endocrine system role - correct answer ✔✔Glands (pituary, adrenal)
hormones (reproductive (FSH and LH)
growth hormones
Neurons
Negative feedback loop - correct answer ✔✔
H.P.G. axis - correct answer ✔✔Hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis, the negative feedback loop that
regulates sex-hormone production.
Hormonal influences - correct answer ✔✔
Tanner stages - correct answer ✔✔
Pituary Gland (Master Gland) - correct answer ✔✔-produces a number of hormones involved in growth
-regulates function of other glands
-for the most part controlled by the hypothalamus
-releases ACTH (stimulates the adrenal gland to produce cortisol)
Adrenal gland - correct answer ✔✔maturation (adrenarche) contributes to the development of body
odor, signalling the beginning of sexual maturation to tohers
, cortisol - correct answer ✔✔a hormone produced when a person is exposed to stress
-regulates metabolism
Hormones - correct answer ✔✔4 main functions:
-metabolism
-growth
-development
-reproduction
Hormone organizational role - correct answer ✔✔There early individual effects of hormones on the
function and structure of the body
Paves the way for future changes to occur
Homeostasis, general hormones stages
Hormone activational role - correct answer ✔✔Categorized as an immediate or temporary effect of a
hormone
Changes that has everything to do with the presence or absence of a certain hormone
Transient
Sets up the body to undergo specific and spontaneous changes
Reproductive hormones - correct answer ✔✔start and end first
FSH (activational role)
LH (governs release of egg from ovary)
growth hormones - correct answer ✔✔have nothing to do with sexual maturation
Neurons (GnRh) - correct answer ✔✔specialized neurons that are activated by certain pubertal
hormones; sensitive to the level of sex hormones that are being regulated throughout the body (there's
not enough, there's too much)
Report back the level of sex hormones in the bloodstream
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