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Front 1

What are determinants of puberty?

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heredity
hormones
birth weight

Front 2

The part of the brain involved in reasoning, decision making and self control is the?

Back 2

amygdala

Front 3

In boys, higher levels of ______ are associated with violence and acting-out behavior.

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androgens

Front 4

Unprotected sexual intercourse is considered a health-______ behavior.

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compromising

Front 5

Which of the following structures is involved in puberty?

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gonads

Front 6

What is true about adolescence?

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1)Puberty ends before adolescence.
2)Puberty is the most important marker for the beginning of adolescence.
3)Puberty is a period of rapid physical maturation.

Front 7

Puberty takes place between ages ______ for most individuals.

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9 and 16

Front 8

Which of the following early experiences has been linked to early pubertal onset?

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child maltreatment

Front 9

The term “secular trend” refers to?

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patterns of pubertal onset over historical times.

Front 10

______ is a period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily change.

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Puberty

Front 11

According to Vygotsky, cognitive growth depends on?

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interaction with others in cooperative activities.

Front 12

Increases in both capacity and speed of processing are referred to as ?

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cognitive resources.

Front 13

What term refers to the ability to complete activities with little effort or thought?

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Automaticity

Front 14

The “mental workbench” refers to what information-processing concept?

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Working memory

Front 15

A memory strategy in which an adolescent groups items into categories is called?

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organization

Front 16

Thinking that goes from observation of specific things to general principles is known as?

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inductive.

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Reasoning from general principles to specific situations is known as ?

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deductive

Front 18

Sternberg believes that most schools fail to teach critical-thinking skills by?

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focusing too much on formal reasoning.

Front 19

According to research, what kind of students are usually self-regulatory learners?

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High achievers

Front 20

Problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to and learn from life’s everyday experiences is the traditional definition of

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intelligence

Front 21

The substance and content of an individual’s self-conceptions are his or her

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self-understanding.

Front 22

During adolescence, one’s self-understanding becomes increasingly

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abstract

Front 23

The “barometric self” is an example of the ____________ self.

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fluctuating

Front 24

Adolescents are least likely to show their false self with who?

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with close friends.

Front 25

The global evaluative dimension of the self defines

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self-esteem.

Front 26

Which type of peer support appears to contribute the most to an adolescent’s self-esteem?

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Classmate and Close friend

Front 27

For most adolescents, low self-esteem results in ______________ emotional disturbance.

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temporary

Front 28

Which of Erikson’s developmental stages is experienced during adolescence?

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Identity versus role confusion

Front 29

Experimenting with different types of dress, music, foods, and friends during adolescence is an effort to do what?

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find their place in the world.

Front 30

The identity statuses identified by Marcia depend on what two factors?

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Crisis and commitment

Front 31

What term refers to the sociocultural dimension of being male or female?

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Gender

Front 32

What term refers to the social expectations of how we should act, think, and feel as females and males?

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Gender role

Front 33

Which theory emphasizes gender role acquisition as a product of modeling and reinforcement?

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Social cognitive

Front 34

One study concerning the gender roles of siblings showed that over a two-year period

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older siblings became less like their younger siblings.

Front 35

The first role models for gender behavior are?

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parents

Front 36

Research shows that, in comparison to female students, male students are given more what?

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praise, criticism, instruction, attention.

Front 37

The cognitive developmental theory of gender development is based on whose theory?

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Piaget's

Front 38

According to gender schema theory,

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gender-typing emerges as individuals develop culture-appropriate gender schemes.

Front 39

By what age do children attain gender constancy?

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6 to 7 years

Front 40

What is modern sexism?

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Lack of support for policies designed to help women

Front 41

What cognitive characteristic discussed in the text often leads adolescents to take sexual risks?

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Adolescent egocentrism

Front 42

What might limit research on matters of sexuality?

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A. Some people are reluctant to answer questions about such a personal aspect of life.
B.Some people will refuse to give any intimate information to strangers.
C.Some people may give socially acceptable answers that may not be truthful.
D.People with liberal attitudes toward sex are more apt to answer than those with conservative attitudes.

Front 43

The progression of heterosexual adolescent and young adult sexual behavior is typically what?

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kissing, petting, sexual intercourse and oral sex

Front 44

What proportion of adolescents have NOT had sexual intercourse by the time they are 19 years of age?

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One-fifth

Front 45

Low self-regulation, the ability to regulate one’s emotions and behavior, has been linked to what?

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sexual risk taking.

Front 46

When did the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association stop classifying homosexuality as a disorder?

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1970s

Front 47

Research has shown that one reason adolescent girls do not encourage their partners to use condoms is because the risk of disease or pregnancy is not as threatening as the risk of what?

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1.being embarrassed.
2.the boy leaving her.
3.not enjoying sex because the condom might be uncomfortable. 100%

Front 48

What are some risks about infants born to adolescent mothers?

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1.They are likely to be of low birth weight.
2.They are likely to have behavioral problems.
3.They score lower on intelligence tests than babies born to older mothers.
4. They score lower on achievement tests later in life than babies born to older mothers.

Front 49

Bruce is having sex but is not using contraception. According to research, it is likely that Bruce is?

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from a low-SES background.

Front 50

In the study of moral development, what three domains are examined?

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Thoughts, behaviors, and feelings

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What are the two dimensions of moral development?

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Interpersonal and intrapersonal

Front 52

As children and adolescents develop, their moral thoughts become?

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more internalized.

Front 53

What statement best describes heteronomous morality?

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Moral thinking is often tied to punishment.

Front 54

In Kohlberg’s theory there are _____ levels, with each level having ______ stages.

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three; two

Front 55

Most adolescents reason about moral dilemmas in a?

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conventional way.

Front 56

Bandura argues that people don’t usually engage in immoral conduct until they have?

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justified to themselves the morality of the act.

Front 57

The moral perspective that views people in terms of their connectedness to and concern for other people is known as the

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care perspective.

Front 58

According to Gilligan, girls interpret moral dilemmas in terms of

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human relationships.

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Moral competence is defined as?

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the ability to produce moral behaviors.

Front 60

When parents not only influence their adolescents but are also influenced by them, this is called

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reciprocal socialization.

Front 61

Which of the following statements is most consistent with the continuity view of development?

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The secure parent-infant bond shapes the basic components of social relationships.

Front 62

What are the two main developmental construction views?

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Continuity and discontinuity

Front 63

Longitudinal research by Collins that looked at the relation between individuals’ friendships in middle childhood and their dating at age 16 showed that?

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the quality of individuals’ relationships during middle childhood was associated with intimate, secure dating relationships at age 16.

Front 64

In comparison to younger fathers, older fathers are more likely to?

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communicate well.

Front 65

Which parental factor is most related to juvenile delinquency?

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Inadequate parental monitoring

Front 66

According to Baumrind, which types of parents are punishment-oriented and engage in little discussion regarding limits?

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Authoritarian

Front 67

Some parents who purposefully use an indulgent style of parenting assume that this style will result in a ______________________________ adolescent.

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confident

Front 68

Parent-adolescent conflict occurs when?

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Most conflict involves everyday events of family life.

Front 69

If you asked adolescents with whom they experience the most disagreements, they would most likely say who?

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Mother