| A | B |
|---|
| puberty | point where one reaches sexual maturity |
| menarche | a female's first menstral period |
| asynchrony | time where parts of the body are not growing in sync with one another |
| identity crisis | Erikson's view of adolescence |
| social learning theory | Bandura's theory of development |
| sex identity | gender determined by biology |
| sex role | gender determined by society and culture |
| androgynous | ignoring traditional sex roles |
| authoritarian family | family structure where parents have all control |
| democratic family | family structure where decisions are made collectively by parents and children |
| laissez-faire family | family structure where children are in control |
| permissive family | family structure where children are in control |
| conformity | changing yourself to mirror what others do |
| menopause | point where a woman stops ovulating and can no longer have children |
| generativity | feeling that one has wisdom to pass along to future generations |
| stagnation | feeling of unimportance and lack of wisdom to pass on |
| decremental model of aging | theory that a person gradaully declines physically and mentally as he/she ages |
| ageism | discrimination or prejudice based on age |
| closed awareness | when a patient is unaware of a terminal illness |
| suspected awareness | a patient is suspicious of the terminal nature of an illness, but is not completely sure |
| mutual pretence awareness | a patient and doctors pretend to be unaware of the terminal nature of an illness |
| open awareness | all parties are aware of a terminal illness |
| thanatology | the study of death and dying |
