Lifespan Chapter 8 Quiz

The two general types of physical development associated with puberty include?

Who would be most likely to have just achieved close to her full adult stature?

A sex difference during puberty involves the fact that ____ is greater for girls than boys?

During adolescence?

The maturation of the ____ lobe during adolescence is related to improvements in inhibiting of behaviors?

Primary sex characteristic changes are those directly impacting?

During puberty, changes in physical maturity that are not directly linked to reproduction are referred to as ____ sex characteristics?

Menarche is best described as the onset of?

Which best describes the early menstrual cycles of a typical teenage female?

Which event defines spermarche?

A key physical component of puberty is the ____ gland, which regulates pubertal changes by signaling other glands to secrete hormones?

Estrogen is directly released by the?

Which statement is true?

Which factor seems to be most involved in timing of menarche in many industrialized nations over the past 150 years?

If you were asked to describe the pattern of the average age of menarche onset in Europe between 1840 and today, you should say?

Which statement best describes the connection between environmental stress and maturation in girls?

Which best describes the "paternal investment theory" of puberty?

Which best describes the typical response to body image during puberty?

Who is most likely to suffer the most negative psychological consequences as a result of the timing of maturation?

The negative effects associated with being an early-maturing female have been found to be offset by?

A typical teenage girl should consume approximately ____ calories each day?

As a typical U.S. teen, Amber is most likely consuming?

Currently, in the United States, about one in ____ adolescents is overweight?

Concerning weight, the abbreviation BMI stands for?

Overweight teens are most at risk for developing ____ later in life?

Parents may contribute to the likelihood of their children becoming obese by?

Which characteristic is least associated with child and adolescent obesity?

Genetic influence on obesity can cause some adolescents to be?

Programs that effectively assist obese children in losing weight tend to?

Carrie exhibits anorexia nervosa. When she looks in a mirror, she is most likely thinking?

____ is one of the defining characteristics of anorexia nervosa?

The defining characteristic of bulimia nervosa involves?

Research has shown that?

You are asked to develop an effective prevention program concerning eating disorders in teens. What approach should you take?

When Kann et al. (1995) asked ninth- and twelfth-graders about their exercise habits, they found that?

Lindsey is hesitant about letting her teenage daughter Davenport participate in sports because she has heard that most youth who participate in sports end up injured. What is the most accurate assessment of Lindsey's thoughts?

Anabolic steroids are most chemically similar to?

Based on statistics, which 16-year-old male is most likely to die in an incident involving a firearm?

Based on statistics, which 16-year-old female is most likely to die in an incident involving an automobile accident?

The illusion of invulnerability is best demonstrated by?

Which statement best describes the neurological explanation for risk-taking behavior in teens?

Which statement concerning cognitive development in adolescence is true?

Heuristics tend to be very?

Adolescents develop ____ reasoning, which allows them to find weaknesses in arguments?

What would you predict would happen when Duke, a white supremacist teen,reads a scientific study indicating that Asians have higher IQs than whites?

What technique did Kohlberg use to assess moral thinking?

In the Victor Hugo story Les Misérables, a character named Valjean steals a loaf of bread to feed a starving child. How would psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg describe this act?

According to Kohlberg?

According to Kohlberg's original theory, there are ____ levels of moral reasoning, each containing ____ stages?

Kohlberg used the label ____ when referring to the first level of moral reasoning?

Preconventional moral reasoning is based on ____ forces?

Moral reasoning based on instrumental orientation tends to occur at the ____ level of moral thinking?

Which of Kohlberg's levels places the greatest emphasis on morality as a function of the expectations others hold toward you?

Morality based on adherence to societal law and order is best associated with Kohlberg's ____ stage of moral thinking?

Postconventional moral thinking is characterized by judgments made according to a(n)?

According to Kohlberg, abstract notions of justice or equity are examples of?

At which age are most people operating at the postconventional level of moral reasoning?.

Research on the relationship between moral thinking and moral behaviors has shown that when making moral decisions, delinquent adolescents?

Kohlberg's emphasis on ____ has not been supported by cross-cultural research?

Gilligan's original complaint against Kohlberg's theory was that it?

Which phrase describes the emphasis of Gilligan's theory of moral development?

Research on differences between the moral reasoning of males and females has shown that?