Exam 14: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

The combination­of­liquids task, in which children discover how to mix four colorless liquids to make yellow, requires which type of thinking skills for its solution?

Who would view the improvements in thinking that occur during adolescence as due to a gradual acquisition and implementation of more powerful problem­solving rules?

Freud believed that adolescence was a distinctive stage because:

Freud believed the main goal of adolescence was to:

The circuit that extends from the brain to the sex organs and back again and is responsible for regulating the hormones that affect the body's growth and function is called the:

Cognitive conflict that is rooted in social experience is called:

In females, the adolescent growth spurt:

Sociocognitive conflict is most likely to be seen:

The timing of the onset of puberty is:

The following may help to account for the higher levels of obesity found among African Americans:

One of the most significant breakthroughs in pubertal science in the last three decades is the discovery of a small protein produced by cells in the hypothalamus. This protein plays a key role in the activation of the HPG axis and is called:

During the adolescent growth spurt, the brain:

During puberty, the level of estrogen in females increases over the level in middle childhood by:

In what ways might formal operations be used in everyday problem solving? What differences occur between "laboratory" formal operations and "everyday" formal operations?

Describe the effect of puberty on family relations.

Adolescents and adults are likely to apply formal operational thought to solve problems:

In Gilligan's view, male moral reasoning is based on ____________ and female moral reasoning upon ____________.

Which of the following does NOT usually occur until fairly late in puberty?

According to Tanner, which body part has its adolescent growth spurt earliest?

Sleep researchers recognize that the sleep­wake shift results from an interaction of biological and environmental influences including all of the following EXCEPT: