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

According to the text

In both males and females, fat is deposited in the breast area during adolescence.

Suppose you compared the results of two surveys on sexual attitudes, one conducted in the early 1990s and one conducted in the late 2000s. If you looked at the percentage of high school students who reported being sexually active, you would expect to find that high school students were:

What is the term the text uses to refer to sexual attraction toward members of one's own sex?

Which of the following correctly expresses a way in which adolescents in the United States differ from adolescents in most other parts of the world?

As adolescents move through the period called "adolescence," they usually become more likely to see themselves as adults.

Suppose you conduct a study of high school students, asking them if they have "ever had sexual intercourse." If your results are typical, you should expect students who identify themselves as belonging to which of the following racial/ethnic groups to report the LOWEST level of sexual experience?

Each hormone influences a certain set of targets. For example, estrogen causes:

In comparison to late-maturing boys, early maturing boys:

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?

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

Stan has become critical of his parents as he contrasts his ideal parents with the real parents he sees on a daily basis. His ability to understand contrary-to-fact situations is a characteristic that emerges during which of Piaget's periods of cognitive development?

If she were a typical teenage girl growing up in the early 1960s, Sarah would most likely consider premarital sex between a man and a women to be:

Research suggests that adolescents' satisfaction with their body image is at its lowest point at age 13 for boys and at age 15 for girls.

Which of the following terms is used to refer to the time of onset of the first menstrual period?

In comparison to hormones typically found in men, which of the following are hormones that are found in greater quantities in women?

In the United States today, about 50% of sexually active adolescents have a sexually transmitted disease.

The term used to refer to a symbolic event or ritual that marks the transition from childhood to adulthood is called a(n):

According to the text, the development of fMRI techniques has allowed developmental researchers to investigate brain development more effectively because this technology allows them to perform which of the following types of research?

Suppose you conduct a survey of 9th- and 12th-grade boys and girls. If the students in your survey respond in the same way as did students in 2009, you would expect that, in comparison to girls, boys in 9th grade reported ______ levels of sexual activity and boys in 12^th grade reported _____ levels of sexual activity.