Exam 8: Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

One's weight is less important than one's body ________ index in the determination of whether one is or is not overweight or obese.

Suzy has just begun her pubescent growth spurt, and her mother often says, "That girl is growing like a weed!" If Suzy's development is typical of most girls, she is probably about ____ years old.

According to Lawrence Kohlberg, morality develops in a series of _____ levels, and each level, has _____ substage(s).

In support of Kohlberg's theory of the development of morality, research has found that individuals at ________ are compelled by internal factors to behave in a moral manner.

From whom would you expect the biggest gains in height and weight over the next three years?

A typical girl starting her growth spurt is to ______ years of age, as a typical boy starting his growth spurt is to _____ years of age.

Anorexia nervosa is diagnosed far more frequently in females than in males, while the diagnostic trend for bulimia nervosa shows equal rates of diagnoses for both males and females.

Girls who experience harsher punishment during their preschool and young childhood years are likely to

Why is it that social interactions between 11- and 12-year-old boys and girls are frequently so awkward?

Research has found that Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development is most applicable to people from ________ cultures.

A child's attempt to solve a problem is to ________ as an adolescent's attempt to solve that same problem is to ________.

Pubertal changes that are related to reproduction are to ________ as pubertal changes that are not directly linked to the reproductive organs are to ________.

Compared to ___________, ____________ are much more concerned about their overall appearance.

Lawrence Kohlberg told his research participants a story that had a single morally correct answer, and studied whether they could determine that answer. His findings formed the basis of his theory on the development of morality.

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

Which of the following individuals has just experienced menarche?

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

The off-time hypothesis suggests that early or late entry into puberty are both stressful for girls, most of whom prefer to be "on time" in their physical development.

At the ________ level of morality in Lawrence Kohlberg's theory, adolescents and adults look to society's norms for moral guidance.

The term puberty denotes ____ specific types of changes that mark the transition from childhood to young adulthood.