Exam 14: Physical Development in Adolescence

Have your child keep track of his/her eating patterns over the course of the week. Look at your child's description and indicate whether you think your child is eating a nutritionally sound diet. If not, what are your concerns and what can you do to assist your child with adopting healthy eating habits? What role does exercise play in healthy physical development?

Noriko's mother began noticing that during the latter part of her senior year in high school Noriko was often complaining of backaches, headaches, indigestion, and insomnia and had already been sick several times throughout the past two months. Noriko's physical responses to her environment were most likely due to high levels of __________.

The first spontaneous ejaculation is known as __________.

The developmental stage that begins and ends imprecisely and lies between childhood and adulthood is known as __________.

Which of the following is an example of an acute stressor?

Because drinking is seen as a way of maintaining a certain image, drinking tends to be higher in adolescent __________ than in the adolescent general population.

Transcendental meditation, Zen, yoga, progressive muscle relaxation, and even hypnosis are techniques that have been shown to be effective in ___________.

Define psychosomatic disorder and provide three examples.

Which adolescent is likely to be the most advanced at coping with stress?

A common sexually transmitted infection caused by a virus that produces symptoms not unlike cold sores that sometimes appear around the mouth is known as __________.

One in four adolescents contracts an STI before graduating from high school. The most common STI is __________.

Long-term, continuous exposure to stressors may result in a reduction of the body's ability to deal with ___________. As a consequence, people become more susceptible to diseases as their ability to fight off germs declines.

Puberty begins when the pituitary gland in the brain signals other glands in children's bodies to begin producing the sex hormones-__________ in males and __________ in females-at adult levels.

Some adolescents drink because of ___________, in which they assume that everyone is drinking at high levels due to a few conspicuous examples.

Which of the following sexually transmitted infections is associated with the development of cervical cancer?

Eleven-year-old Maria had always been about the same size as her 9-year-old brother Domingo, until recently. Maria is now almost 2 inches taller than her brother and she has also noticed she has gained some weight. Maria is most likely going through __________.

On average, boys grow __________ a year and girls grow __________ a year during the adolescent growth spurt.

The most significant event during adolescence is the onset of puberty, which begins for most girls at around ages __________ and for most boys at around ages ___________.

Define secular trend, and provide an example of one.

The symptoms of __________ include burning urination and a discharge from the penis or vagina.