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

Joshua's friends tease him because he always tries to conform his behavior to what he believes his friends are doing. In this sense, the stage of moral development that most likely characterizes his behavior would be:

Adolescents' feeling that they are special and invulnerable and exempt from the laws that control the destinies of ordinary people is called the:

Melissa believes that she can drink and drive because she is invulnerable and immortal. According to the view of David Elkind, Melissa is experiencing a(n):

Which of the following young women would have had the hardest time purchasing birth control contraceptives?

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

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

According to the text, for people in the United States, the portion of the lifespan from age 14 to 18 is best considered to be the period of:

Vicki believes that she is constantly being watched and judged by her friends. According to the view advanced by David Elkind, Vicki is experiencing the:

In comparison to adolescents in the United States, adolescents in Korea and Japan spend _____ time on schoolwork and _____ time engaging in creative activities.

Suppose you conduct a longitudinal study by interviewing "typical" 18-year-olds at various points in time about their attitudes about sexuality. Which of the following person would be most likely to hold the most liberal attitudes?

If teenagers marry because of an unintended pregnancy, they are _____ likely to drop out of high school and _____ likely to get a divorce, compared to pregnant teens who don't marry or who marry after the birth of the child.

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 12th grade reported _____ levels of sexual activity.

Today in the U.S., about % of male high school seniors and % of female high school seniors report being sexually active.

Maria (a girl) and Jose (a boy) are fraternal twins and are 10 years old. If their development is typical, Maria should experience the adolescent growth spurt in about ___ more years, and Jose should experience his adolescent growth spurt in about ____ more years.

According to data cited in the text, in which of the following regions of the world is teen parenting LEAST common?

If Lucy is an African American girl and Lorraine is a white American girl, you should expect that Lucy will experience menarche at about age ____ and Lorraine will experience menarche at about age ____.

Which of the following terms describes the onset of menstrual cycles in females?

Suppose that Megan is researching her family tree and comes across her great-great-great grandmother's diary. She notes that the diary for the year 1840 describes that age at which her ancestor reached menarche. If her grandmother was typical, the diary would note that this ancestor would have been how old?

Typically, girls experience the adolescent growth spurt about:

Advances in which of the following fields has been of primary importance in helping researchers understand that brain development during adolescence is much more dramatic than had previously been thought?