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How Does the Onset of Puberty Differ for Males and Females

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How does the onset of puberty differ for males and females? Discuss some of the psychosocial stressors that are related to these differences and the male and female reactions to early and late maturation.


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Number Conservation

A cognitive ability in children that demonstrates their understanding that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape or arrangement.

Preoperational Thought

A stage in Piaget's cognitive development theory characterized by symbolic thinking, egocentrism, and a lack of logical reasoning in children aged 2 to 7 years.

Centration

A characteristic of preoperational thought in which the child tends to focus on one salient feature of an experience or event at a time.

Zone Of Proximal Development

In Vygotsky’s theory, the range of concepts and skills that a learner is to understand or perform only with support or scaffolding from someone else.

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