Chapter 9 example #54441

Puberty refers to a period of:

Puberty

The growth spurt that characterizes pubertal change occurs approximately ____ for girls than for boys

The mean age at the beginning of the growth spurt in girls is ___

Which of the following is associated with breast, uterine, and skeletal development in girls ?

Which of the following hormones dominates in male pubertal development?

In the United States the average age of menarche has _____ since the mid-nineteenth century.

Which of the following statements about the timing and variations in puberty is true ?

Recent research has found that early-maturing girls are more likely than late-maturing girls to be

The ______ where fibers connect the brains left right hemispheres, thickens in adolescence and this improves adolescents ability to process information.

Donna is concerned about her adolescent daughter's tendency to flare up at the mildest provocations. Donna says that her daughter refuses to see reason sometimes and seems unable to exercise much self-control. As a specialist in the development of adolescents, you would tell Donna that her daughter's behavior could partly be explained by the biological reason that:

_____ is a judgment region that reins in intense emotions but dosent finish developing until at least emerging adulthood.

A number of leading experts on adolescent sexuality conclude that abstinence-only programs:

Almost half of all deaths from 15 to 24 years of age are due to:

The majority of unintentional injuries in adolescence involve

In about ______ percent of motor vehicle fatalities involving adolescents, the driver was found to be intoxicated

______ is/are the second leading cause of death in adolescence

anorexia nervosa is an

Which of the following is one of the main characteristics that applies to people suffering from anorexia nervosa

Dalia tends to go on eating binges and then purges by self-inducing vomiting or using a laxative. Which of the following conditions does Dalia suffer from?

Identify the similarity between anorexics and bulimics

Penny has been diagnosed as suffering from bulimia nervosa. It is most likely that she:

according to jean Piaget around age 11 the fourth stage of cognitive development the ____ stage begins

According to jean Piaget which of the following types of thought is the most abstract ?

The abstract quality of thinking during the _____ stage is evident in the adolescent's verbal problem-solving ability.

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 ____

_____ thinkers develop hypotheses about ways to solve problems and then systematically deduce the best path to follow to solve the problem

Adolescent _____ is the heightened self-consciousness of adolescents.

The ____ is adolescents belief that others are as interested in them as they themselves are as well as attention getting behavior attempts to be noticed, visible, and on stage

The ___is the part of adolescents egocentrism involving a sense of uniqueness and invincibility