Sociology, asked by ruhi835, 1 year ago

Describe the five general characteristics of adolescence

Answers

Answered by KingDhiraj
10
1) rapid increase in height
2) secretion of hormones
3 growth of moustache and beard
4) increase in maturity
5) understanding of various emotions
and many more.............

mark as brainliest if it helps.......!
Answered by Anonymous
7
┏─━─━─━─━∞◆∞━─━─━─━─┓
✭✮ӇЄƦЄ ƖƧ ƳƠƲƦ ƛƝƧƜЄƦ✮✭
┗─━─━─━─━∞◆∞━─━─━─━─┛

➧ Puberty➫ The stage of life when the body becomes capable of reproduction.

♦ It is the time in life when a boy or girl becomes sexually mature.

♦ Boys usually start Puberty 2 years later than girls.

♦ Both girls & boys can expect to gain weight as well as height during Puberty. 

➧ Adolescence➫ The period of transition from a child to an adult.

♦ It is a period of life with specific health & developmental needs & rights.

♦ It describes the years between ages 13 and 19 & can be considered the transitional stage from childhood to adulthood.

➧ Some changes in Boys & Girls:-
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=☟

[1] In Boys:-
━━━━━━━━━⤵

❱ The male hormone testosterone beings to be released by the testes.

❱ This cause the sex organs -- testes & the penis -- to develop completely & the testes to start producing sperm.

[2] In Girls:-
━━━━━━━━━⤵

❱ The ovaries start producing the female hormone Progesterone.

❱ The ovaries enlarge & start releasing eggs.

➧ Some changes 0ccurs during Puberty & Adolescence:-
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=☟

❶❫ Increase in height:-
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⤵

❱ Increase in height during adolescence brought about by elongation of the bones of the arms & legs.

❷❫ Changes in Body Shapes:-
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⤵

❱ In boys:- The shoulder become broader and the chest become wider.

❱ In Girls:- The pelvic region widen, hip broaden, breast develop & increase in size. Mammary gland developed inside the breast.

❸❫ Development of Hairs:-
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⤵

❱ Hair start growing in the Armpits and in the public area.

❹❫ Changes in Voice:-
━━━━━━━━━━━━━⤵

❱ Larynx becomes bigger in boys than in girls. This is why boys develop a deep voice where girls have a high pitched voice.

❺❫ Increase of Sweat Glands:-
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⤵

❱ Sweat gland leads to increase sweet and obtain resulting in body odour.
The skin becomes oily & lead to appearance of acne & pimples on the face.

❻❫ Sexual Feelings:-
━━━━━━━━━━━━⤵

❱ Sexual maturity causes boys & girls to become interested in & attracted to the opposite sex.

_________
Thanks...✊
Similar questions