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

According to Carol Gilligan, the ethic of _______________ leads females to put a priority on fulfilling obligations to other people and those obligations guide their moral decision-making.

You are the parent of twins, one male and one female, who are entering puberty. Describe to them the primary and secondary sex characteristics that they will each be acquiring over the next few years.

Preconventional moral reasoning is based on ____ forces.

Of the following choices, which individual is most likely to have a greater amount of concern for others and to place an emphasis on helping them?

During the peak of adolescence, a healthy girl may gain as much as ____ pounds in a year, while a healthy boy may gain ____ pounds.

The most influential account of moral development was proposed by ____.

Kendra is a 15-year-old girl who has been experiencing menstruation since she was 12 years of age. During her monthly period she loses some hemoglobin, the matter in red blood cells that carries oxygen. In order to replace this hemoglobin in her body, she should make sure she eats a diet that has adequate amounts of ____.

At about age ____, most boys reach spermarche, which is the first spontaneous ejaculation of sperm-laden fluid.

Despite popular ideas, research has consistently found that the average adolescent eats a healthy amount of calories each day, and gets adequate intake of essential vitamins and nutrients such as iron and calcium.

Childhood and adolescent obesity is associated with a number of outcomes, including ____.

Using ____ steroids to "bulk up" is associated with numerous physical and psychological adverse effects.

Individuals with anorexia nervosa have a grossly distorted ____.

Although the number of high school athletes who get injured playing their sport is not small enough to ignore, the fact is that

If you were asked to develop an effective program for preventing eating disorders in teens, you should

____ is a disease in which people binge eat and then purge by vomiting or using laxatives.

Franklin is raising his son, Marshall, using an authoritative parenting style, which encourages discussion and interaction between them. When it comes to moral dilemmas, they frequently discuss the situations, and have friendly and respectful "back and forth" conversations. Which of the following is most likely to result from these exchanges?

Social interactions between 11- and 12-year-old boys and girls may be awkward because

Substage 1 of conventional morality is to ____ as substage 2 of conventional morality is to ____.

Sexual maturation, which includes changes to the penis, testes, scrotum, vagina, uterus, and/or ovaries, involves the development of primary sexual characteristics.

The various body changes that occur during puberty can cause a young adolescent to both look and feel very awkward and out-of-place in their own skin. Discuss several of these changes as discussed in your textbook. For this particular question, primary and secondary sexual characteristics should not be used.