Exam 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

According to the study by Lloyd Johnston and his colleagues at the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan monitoring the drug use of America's high school seniors in a wide range of public and private high schools, the percentage of illicit drug use:

Daughters of teenage mothers are:

An eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation.

Bulimia nervosa typically begins in:

Katie weighs less than 85 percent of what is considered normal for her age and height. Yet, she sees herself as too fat and starves to become thinner. Katie most likely suffers from:

_____ is a hormone associated in boys with genital development, increased height, and deepening of the voice.

What are the characteristics of the formal operational stage?

The mean age at the beginning of the growth spurt in girls is _____.

Bill wants to know how he can prevent drug abuse by his adolescent son. You would suggest that Bill:

Which of the following statements is true?

A number of leading experts on adolescent sexuality conclude that education programs that emphasize contraceptive knowledge:

The _____ is adolescents' belief that others are as interested in them as they themselves are, as well as attention-getting behavior-attempts to be noticed, visible, and "on stage."

Most anorexics are young adult females from:

In 1904, this famous theorist proposed that adolescence was a turbulent time of "storm-and-stress."

Anorexia nervosa is a(n):

In the last half of the twentieth century and the first several years of the twenty-first century, U.S. high school dropout rates:

When students make the transition to middle or junior high school, they experience the _____ phenomenon, moving from being the oldest, biggest, and most powerful students in the elementary school to being the youngest, smallest, and least powerful students in the middle or junior high school.

Service learning is often more effective when two conditions are met: (1) giving students some degree of choice in the service activities in which they participate, and (2) _____.

The growth spurt that characterizes pubertal change occurs approximately _____ for girls than for boys.

A person suffering from anorexia nervosa would have a weight less than _____ percent of what is considered normal for their age and height.