Exam 15: Adolescence

As teens mature, the growth of myelin facilitates

Adolescence is marked by the onset of

Mark believes that choosing to violate government laws is morally justifiable if it is done to protect the lives of innocent people. Kohlberg would suggest that this illustrates ________ morality.

The corrupt behavior of many ordinary people who served as Nazi concentration camp guards best illustrates that immorality often results from

Lawrence Kohlberg focused on the development of

A rite of passage is most similar to a(n)

The ability to think logically about hypothetical situations is indicative of the ________ stage of development.

Among the hallmarks of growing up are a boy's first ejaculation and a girl's first menstrual period, which also is called

Persistent exclusion from peer social relationships is most likely to increase teens' risk for

Research indicates that the high school girls who have the most affectionate relationships with their mothers also tend to

Thirteen-year-old Ryan has begun to challenge many of his parents' values and to express his own set of highly idealistic standards. Compare and contrast the explanations for Ryan's behavior that would be given by Kohlberg and by Erikson.

During adolescence, maturation of the ________ lags behind maturation of the ________.

An awareness of your distinctive status as an international student in a university far from your homeland best illustrates a sense of

A public initiation into adult responsibilities and status is called a

Mr. Lambers refuses to pay income taxes because his conscience will not allow him to support a government that spends billions of dollars on military weapons. Mr. Lambers' reasoning best illustrates Kohlberg's ________ stage.

Adolescents' sense of what's fair is most likely to change from simple equality to equity when they achieve

Whose stage theory of moral development was based on how people reasoned about ethical dilemmas?

According to Piaget, the ability to think logically about abstract propositions is indicative of the stage of

People experience rapid physical development and sexual maturation during

Ten-year-old Heidi is maturing early and already towers over all the girls and most of the boys in her fifth-grade class. Heidi is likely to be