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

In males, which of the following is typically the first sign that a boy has entered puberty?

Generalizing from data presented in the text, which of the following high school students would be MOST likely to report having had sexual intercourse?

The volume of gray matter in the brain peaks for girls at about age _____ and for boys at about age _____.

In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development that is reached during early adolescence is usually called the:

The adolescent rite of passage usually occurs at the end of a 1- to 2-year apprenticeship that most adolescents undertake to ready themselves for the roles and responsibilities of full adulthood.

In boys, the first indication of puberty is a change in voice.

During adolescence, two significant changes in the brain are the pruning away of some neurons and the increasing myelination of the brain cells.

Monica is terribly anxious about weighing too much, but has an uncontrollable need to eat, especially sweets. She consumes huge quantities of food in an hour, and then feels despondent and out of control. To compensate for overeating, she vomits. What is her disorder?

In the United States today, the period of adolescence is heavily age-segregated, meaning that nearly all children enter adolescence at age 12 or 13 and exit this period at age 22-24.

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.

When 17-year-old Paul was discussing his future with his father, Paul said, "Let's just suppose for the sake of discussion that I don't attend college right away. What if I volunteered overseas instead?" Paul's ability to think in these terms is characteristic of:

The primary function of the sex glands is to:

If you were to conduct a study of a "typical" high school in the United States today, you should expect that about _____ of the students would have been tested for AIDS.

Which of the following are most closely involved in regulating the balance in the production of hormones?

Which of the following is NOT one of the major sex hormones?

Suppose you study a group of 100 pregnant teenagers in the U. S. today. If this group is typical, you would expect about ___ to have their baby, about ___ to have an abortion, and about ___ to have a miscarriage.

Suppose you were working on a research project in which you read diaries written in 1982 by 100 16-year-old girls. If the diaries were truthful, you would expect that about ___ of the 100 girls would have reported having sexual intercourse by age 16.

According to the text, prior to about 1995, most developmental researchers believed that brain development during adolescence was __________; today most researchers believe that brain development during this period of the lifespan is_________.

A menstrual cycle in which a mature egg has NOT been produced is described by the term:

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