Exam 10: Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Physical and 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:

The term menarche is used to indicate the onset of a girl's first menstrual period.

According to the text, early maturing girls:

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 typically is NOT a characteristic associated with the period of emerging adulthood?

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

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

The Iowa Gambling Task is a game invented to detect:

The eating disorder that is characterized by cycles of overeating and purging is called:

Both the imaginary audience and the personal fable emphasize that adolescence is a period of the lifespan in which individuals are overly concerned about themselves. The overarching term that best describes this "self-preoccupation" is:

According to the text, the rite of passage into adulthood that typically occurs in primitive societies is generally followed immediately by:

Suppose that a researcher conducted a survey about sexual attitudes in 1970 that asked if people approved of premarital sex and of same-sex orientation. If the results of this survey reflected people's attitudes at that time, you should expect that about ____ percent of the respondents would approve of premarital sex and ____ percent would approve of same-sex orientation as an acceptable lifestyle.

According to research cited in the text, in 2009 about one-third of 9th graders and two-thirds of 12th graders reported that they were sexually active.

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:

Because of better nutrition, the age at which girls reach menarche in the Unites States is older now than in previous decades.

All of the following are true of early-maturing girls EXCEPT:

Suppose you conduct a survey of 100 teenage girls, asking them whether or not they used contraception at their first experience of sexual intercourse. If this group was typical, you should expect that about ____ of these girls report that they DID use contraception.

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

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?

By age 6, the brain is about 80% of it adult size.