LS: Chapter 11 Practice – Flashcards
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1 Which of the following statements about adolescents today is TRUE? A) Most adolescents are unsuccessful in negotiating the path from childhood to adulthood. B) Most adolescents display a healthy self-image. C) Acting out and boundary testing are ways adolescents reject parental values. D) Adolescents are a homogeneous group with describable characteristics and experiences.
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C
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__________ is a girl's first menstruation. A) Puberty B) Menarche C) Estradiol D) Precocious puberty
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B
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__________ is/are to females what __________ is/are to males. A) Ovaries; hormones B) Hormones; sperm C) testosterone; estradiol D) estradiol; testosterone
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D
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When Shelby began puberty before she was 8 years of age, she was considered to have __________. A) nutritional menarche B) body image preoccupation C) precocious puberty D) hormone-behavior link
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C
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Which of the following occurs first in male sexual maturation? A) facial hair growth B) increase in penis and testicle size C) first ejaculation D) detectable voice changes
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B
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Which of the following statements regarding puberty is TRUE? A) Boys have more negative body images than girls do. B) Older adolescents are more preoccupied with their body image than younger adolescents. C) Late-maturing girls are usually taller and thinner in late adolescence. D) There is little individual variation in puberty.
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C
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During adolescence, the development of the ____________ improves the ability to process information. A) prefrontal cortex B) corpus callosum C) amygdala D) hypothalamus
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B
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There has been a dramatic increase in what type of sex during adolescence? A) anal B) genital C) oral D) unprotected
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C
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The use of contraceptives by U.S. high school students has increased from 46.2% in 1991 to ___ in 2007. A) 61.5% B) 53.5% C) 66.2% D) 58.7%
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A
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In a single act of unprotected sex, a teenage girl has a _____ risk of acquiring genital herpes. A) 1% B) 25% C) 30% D) 50%
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C
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Which of the following statements regarding adolescent pregnancy is FALSE? A) Studies have found that children of adolescent mothers have lower achievement test scores and more behavioral problems than children born to adult mothers. B) Daughters of teenage mothers are more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. C) Adolescent pregnancy increases health risks for mother and offspring. D) America's adolescent pregnancy rate is among the lowest in the Western world.
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D
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Mary Carskadon found through her research that when given the opportunity, adolescents will sleep almost _____ hours. A) 7 hours B) 9 hours and 25 minutes C) 11 hours and 30 minutes D) 12 hours
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B
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Smoking is likely to begin in grades _____ through _____. A) 6; 8 B) 7; 9 C) 9; 10 D) 10; 12
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D
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A recent trend of substance abuse is _________. A) prescription painkillers B) methamphetamine C) cocaine D) marijuana
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D
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Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa include which characteristic? A) eating healthily B) a fear of becoming ill C) maintaining a normal body weight D) association with depression and/or anxiety
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D
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Piaget's stage describing adolescent cognitive development is called A) concrete operational. B) formal operational. C) sensorimotor. D) preoperational.
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B
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__________ is the heightened sense of self-consciousness in adolescence, described by David Elkind. A) Hypothetical-deductive reasoning B) Adolescent egocentrism C) Withdrawal D) Service learning
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B
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Adolescents feel that they are invincible. Elkind called this A) imaginary audience. B) executive functioning. C) values learning. D) personal fable.
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D
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__________ is a form of education that promotes social responsibility in the community. A) Service learning B) Extracurricular activity C) Journaling D) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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A
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ervice learning is often more effective when two conditions are met: (1) giving students some degree of choice in the service activities in which they participate, and (2) _____. guiding students in their tasks providing students opportunities to reflect about their participation limiting the amount of time spent volunteering fixing certain minimum levels of compliance
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B
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Mary Carskadon and her colleagues concluded from their research of the sleep patterns of U.S. adolescents that: schools should start and end earlier to help adolescents keep to earlier bedtimes. early school starting times are conducive to the sleep patterns of older adolescents but not to those of younger adolescents. early school starting times may be linked to negative outcomes for adolescents. early school starting times are the most conducive to the sleep patterns of adolescents.
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B
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Which of the following characterizes a person suffering from anorexia nervosa? An intense fear of gaining weight that does not decrease with weight loss A positive image of the body shape A high level of self-efficacy A relentless pursuit of weight gain through binge eating
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A
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ourteen-year-old Kent recently received his blood test results which indicate an eighteenfold increase in testosterone levels and a twofold increase in estradiol over the past few years. It appears that Kent: will be put on hormone therapy to correct the significant imbalances in hormonal levels. is experiencing normal changes during puberty. has abnormal levels of female sex hormones. has abnormal levels of male sex hormones.
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B
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Anorexic people use food as a means of: control. reward. gaining popularity. punishment.
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A
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Which of the following has been found to be true about binge drinking? Females engage in more binge drinking than males. Binge drinkiing has increased for students in the eighth grade in recent years. Binge drinking has declined among high school seniors since 1980. Binge drinking has increased for students in the tenth grade in recent years.
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C
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Which of the following is a concern related to U.S. high school education? Fostering of passivity in students High standards for learning Too mucy variety in the pathways students can take High expectations for success
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A
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Anorexia and bulimia nervosa affect: men and women equally. women more than men. more men than women. women more than older men, but less than younger men.
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B
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The _____, where fibers connect the brain's left and right hemispheres, thickens in adolescence, and this improves adolescents' ability to process information. parietal lobe corpus callosum amygdala temporal lobe
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B
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In the formal operational stage, adolescents begin to think more as a scientist thinks, devising plans to solve problems and systematically testing solutions. This type of problem solving requires _____. trial-and-error reasoning hypothetical-deductive reasoning concrete operational reasoning preconventional reasoning
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B
