Exam 10: Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

If you were to explain how sexual attitudes and practices have changed in the United States during the past century, you might want to note the point at which, for the first time, the majority of adolescents no longer believed that premarital sex was neither right nor wrong but rather should be judged based on the couple's relationship. You should associate this change in cultural attitudes with which of the following dates?

If you believe they represent a "typical" population of people growing up in the United States at this time, you would expect that about ____ of these students would have had sexual intercourse.

According to David Elkind, adolescents' assumption that others are focusing a great deal of critical attention on them is called the:

The two words that best describe how the brain changes during adolescence are:

The two words that best describe how the brain changes during adolescence are:

According to the text, the best way to think about the relationship between most adolescents and their parents is to emphasize the term:

According to the test, about what percent of teenage girls experience menstrual "cramping" with their menstruation?

Natalie matured at the same time as most of her male peers and shares their interests and dating activities. She is most likely a(n):

Which of the following girls would be expected to have her first menstrual period at the youngest age?

Today in the U.S., 12th-grade girls are actually more likely to be sexually active than 12th-grade boys.

Natalie matured at the same time as most of her male peers and shares their interests and dating activities. She is most likely a(n):

According to the text, more U. S. adolescent girls become pregnant than adolescent girls from Western European countries because U. S. adolescent girls:

Suppose that Marty sees a new bicycle he wants and, without giving much thought to how he will pay for it

According to research cited in the text, about what percent of U. S. adolescents girls do NOT use contraception at first intercourse?

According to the text, adolescent boys and girls from two-parent families have ____________ sexual experience, compared to children from single-parent homes.

Attitudes about both premarital intercourse and same-sex orientation are more permissive today than they were in the 1950s.

The period called "emerging adulthood" is most likely to be seen in cultures in which the transition between childhood and adulthood is short and relatively simple.

As compared to females, males' bodies typically produce more:

In contemporary U.S. society, the term "emerging adulthood" would be used most accurately when describing individuals in which of the following age groups?

Which of the following dates would best represent the year in which the sexual revolution in the United States was at its highest point?