Exam 9: Adolescence: Body and Mind

If given some weights and asked to balance a scale by hooking the weights onto the scale's arms, how will the most cognitively advanced adolescents determine where to place the weights to balance the scale? How would preadolescents balance the scales?

A strategy to increase student motivation in middle schools is to encourage a belief in:

According to the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the countries with the highest math test scores are:

The statement "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck" is an example of ______.

As adolescents develop their capacity for hypothetical thinking, they become more capable of deductive reasoning.

The sequence of puberty hormone production that originates in the brain and ends with glands located atop the kidneys is known by the acronym:

Discuss the physical, social, and cultural factors that make the typical adolescent boy or girl feel dissatisfied with his or her appearance.

Evolutionary theory suggests that the relationship between childhood stress and onset of puberty exists to:

Secondary school teachers model formal operational thinking but may not connect with all students.

Primary sex characteristics include pubic hair and nipple changes.

One reason for nutritional deficiencies during adolescence is preoccupation with body image.

Marsha says, "There is no way I am going to school today with this bruise on my cheek. Everybody is going to laugh at me." Marsha is demonstrating:

Piaget referred to the stage of cognitive development that involves the ability to think logically about abstract ideas as ______ thought.

Once the primary sexual organs begin to function, adolescents are biologically capable of:

Boys may experience some breast swelling during puberty.

Elle, an adolescent, believes that government should pay for all citizens' health care. From this premise, she reasons about the particulars of how and why government-funded health care would work. This is an example of:

As the United States moves increasingly toward high- stakes testing:

Why is high school achievement likely to advance the national economy?

In adolescence, growth proceeds in a proximal-distal pattern.

It is typical for children to begin seeing pubertal changes in their bodies between ages 8 and 14.