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Cognitive theories emphasize |
conscious thought |
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The transition from adolescence to adulthood has been referred to by Jeffrey Arnett as |
emerging adulthood |
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Corey is participating in research. She is given an electronic pager, and a researcher "beeps" her several times a day to ask her what she is doing. The researcher is using which of the following methods? |
experience sampling |
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Which of the following is a drawback to conducting observational research in a laboratory? |
People who are willing to come to a laboratory might not be representative of the general population. |
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Measuring the levels of hormones in an adolescent's blood stream is an example of which type of measure of adolescent development? |
physiological |
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Bronfenbrenner developed ______, a perspective that is receiving increased attention. |
ecological theory |
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The "storm and stress" view of adolescence was postulated by |
G. Stanley Hall |
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The term "adolescent generalization gap" refers to: |
generalizations based on information about a limited group of adolescents. |
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Ann Masten and her colleagues found that emerging adults who overcame adversity and went on to become competent adults had all of the following characteristics EXCEPT |
they were well-traveled. |
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Psychoanalytic theories emphasize that development is all of the following EXCEPT |
primarily related to observable behavior. |
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Which of the following statements about using surveys to collect data is TRUE? |
People answer in ways that they see as socially desirable. |
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Anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded that the basic nature of adolescence is |
sociocultural. |
