Exam 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

Which of the following is thought to delay the onset of puberty?

Jenna is very careful not to hurt another person's feelings. She earned a spot as the team captain for her tennis team, but she knew that her teammate really wanted to be captain so she asked her coach to give it to the other player. Jenna's brother said she should not have done that because she earned it. What moral orientation is Jenna's behavior motivated by?

Which part of the brain is implicated in aggression?

Which of the following problems is an adolescent capable of solving that a school-age child cannot?

According to cognitive-developmental theory, development is a universal process.

Adolescents require an increase in caloric intake in order to support the adolescent growth spurt.

Early research on moral reasoning showed that males typically reasoned at a higher stage than females did.

Jennifer is an adolescent girl who lives in Chicago, IL. Her parents divorced when she was very young. Jennifer lives with her mother and her mother's boyfriend. Based on what we know about pubertal timing, when will Jennifer experience menarche?

Amanda finds out that her city is planning on building a road through land that is rumored to have Native American burials on it. She organizes a protest and the group takes turns camping out on the land to prevent the trucks from building the road. Amanda is in which stage of Kohlberg's moral reasoning?

Which stage of Piaget's scheme of cognitive development corresponds with adolescence?

Which of the following statements accurately reflects the findings from the classic study of adolescent experience that supports the contemporary perspective of adolescence?

Boys who mature early experience negative outcomes, whereas girls do not.

What is the name of the protein found in fat that is linked to the onset of puberty?

What type of reasoning involves the ability to consider problems, generate and systematically test hypotheses, and draw conclusions?

What is related to outcomes of adolescents who show low levels of moral reasoning?

The orientation that is based on the abstract principles of fairness and individualism is called a(n) _____ orientation.

When adolescents misdirect their own preoccupation about themselves on to others and assume that they are the focus of others' attention, they are engaging in:

Girls with a greater body mass index (BMI) mature earlier than do other girls.

The female-focused mode of moral reasoning in which individuals have a desire to maintain relationships and a responsibility not to cause hurt is called a(n) _____ orientation.

Adolescents and adults generally do not differ in their ratings of the perceived harmfulness of risks, and in many cases, adolescents perceive greater risks than do adults.