Exam 1: Introduction to Adolescent Development

Which ethical principle also includes informed consent?

A researcher is examining whether pleasant consequences for a behavior increase the chance of that behavior being repeated. This researcher is interested in ______.

Adolescents are unable to devise a hypothesis about an imagined scenario.

A case study examines an individual through many different sources of data.

Operant conditioning states that behavior increases or decreases depending upon reinforcement or punishment as a consequence.

Which refers to the interaction of demographic factors to influence an individual's experiences and behaviors?

How does the exosystem interact with and relate to the microsystem in Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model?

Each demographic category that an individual belongs to is independent of their other demographic categories.

A researcher is conducting a study. All of the study participants are in middle adolescence. What can be concluded about the participants in this study?

Blake expects to have disagreements with his parents now that he is a teenager. He remembers a lot of confrontations between his older brother and their parents when he was a teenager. Recently, Blake has begun to experiment with alcohol, which he knows his parents would disapprove of, but he believes that these kinds of risks are part of being a teenager. Blake's expectations and beliefs are due to his ______.

For most adolescents, risky behaviors are ______.

Growing up, Jamal lived through Hurricane Katrina. His father was in the military fighting in the Iraq War for much of his early years. These factors helped to shape the ______ context that Jamal grew up in.

Which is defined as a way to organize facts or observations to explain how something works comprehensively?

Dr. Flath is conducting a research study about the amount of time spent playing video games during adolescence. She has decided to use four groups. They will be separated into 13-year-olds, 14-year-olds, 15-year-olds, and 16-year-olds. She will meet with them only one time to ascertain the average amount of time they spend playing video games. Dr. Flath is using which research design?

Compare and contrast two of the cognitive theories: Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory, Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, and information processing theory.

Dr. Hernandez is conducting a research study using adolescents as her population. In order to adhere to the professional code of conduct, she must disclose her role in the study to clarify that she is only gathering data in her interactions with participants. This exemplifies which principle of ethics?

Computerized tomography involves injecting a small amount of radioactive material into the bloodstream in order to monitor the flow of blood.

Which measures brain activity using radio waves and thereby allowing researchers to see which parts of the brain are activated during cognitive tasks?