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

According to Piaget, children move from the stage of formal operations to the stage of concrete operations at about age 12.

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

Sheila (a girl) and Brian (a boy) are fraternal twins and are 8 years old. If their development is typical, their parents should expect that they will experience the adolescent growth spurt in which of the following patterns?

The name of the eating disorder in which the primary symptom is that the person is obsessed by thoughts of an unattainable image of "perfect" thinness is:

The majority of boys and girls in the U. S. today use contraception the first time they have sexual intercourse.

Generalizing from research reported in the text, with respect to their physical appearance, most adolescent females:

Erikson's view of the period of adolescence is best described as a time of

Suppose you interview a group of people who were 9th graders in 2009. 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.

Suppose you interview a group of people who were 12th graders in 2009. 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 research reported in the text, body-image satisfaction is lowest for:

About what percent of teenage girls in the U. S. become pregnant?

According to the text, the teenage pregnancy rate in Japan and Korea is about ____, whereas the teenage pregnancy rate in sub-Saharan Africa is about ____.

During adolescence, the volume of gray matter in the brain _________ and the volume of white matter _________.

Suppose Dr. Markward conducts a study that examines the activity levels of various brain regions while participants are looking at pictures of faces and identifying the emotions being displayed. If your results replicate those reported in the text, you would expect to find that the __________ is most active in young adolescents and the __________ is most active in older adolescents and adults.

According to the text, which of the following terms is used to describe the period of rapid growth in physical size and strength that occur during adolescence?

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

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

The developmental changes that occur in the brain during adolescence are first seen in the parts of the brain that control __________ and later are seen in the brain regions that control _________.

Generalizing from data presented in the text, which of the following 12th graders would be LEAST likely to report having had sexual intercourse?

In comparison to adolescents in most other parts of the world, adolescents in the Unites States have ______ free time and they are ______ likely to have their parents regulate how they spend the free time they have.