Question 1

Employment for working teens beyond 15 to 20 hours per week can be detrimental to academic success and achievement.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

A link can be found between parenting styles and sensation-seeking and the likelihood of drug use.Children whose parents have a(n)________ parenting style are less likely to engage in such behaviours.

Accepted Answer

A)  authoritarian 
B)  authoritative 
C)  permissive 
D)  neglectful

Question 3

______ percent of youth who clocked more than _____ hours of screen time per week were overweight/obese.

Accepted Answer

A)  25; 20 
B)  32; 25 
C)  66; 20 
D)  77; 25

Question 4

With regard to schooling,which of the following best characterizes the transition from a lower level of education to high school for most adolescents?

Accepted Answer

A)  losses in academic achievement and self-esteem 
B)  increased competence and self-efficacy 
C)  smooth transition and easy adaptation to different demands of a new educational environment 
D)  establishment of higher personal standards and goals for success

Question 5

With respect to male adolescent development,which of the following is NOT a variable for a male whose sexual development is earlier than his peers?

Accepted Answer

A)  they are more academically successful 
B)  they assume leadership roles 
C)  they perform better in sports 
D)  they are economically more successful

Question 6

Which one of the following has been proven to help with transition to secondary school?

Accepted Answer

A)  parental involvement in the school 
B)  guidance counselling 
C)  a wide variety of elective and extracurricular activities 
D)  junior high/middle school

Question 7

Anorexia nervosa is characterized by periods of binge eating alternating with purging behaviours.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

During adolescence,boys are more advanced than girls on which of the following aspects of physical development?

Accepted Answer

A)  size of heart and lungs 
B)  attainment of adult height 
C)  joints of the skeletal system 
D)  acquisition of fat tissue

Question 9

Which of the following statements about menarche is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Menarche typically occurs two years after the beginning of indicators such as changes in the breast and pubic hair. 
B)  In industrialized countries, the average age of menarche has remained fairly stable for the last 100 years. 
C)  Girls now show signs of secondary sex characteristics one or two years earlier than their mothers and grandmothers. 
D)  Girls who are sexually active are more likely to have experienced early menarche.

Question 10

Children being attracted to cross-gender activities or children expressing a desire to be the opposite gender are two sound predictors of a future transgender sexual orientation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Teenaged girls are twice as likely as teenage boys to report feelings of depression.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Menarche is

Accepted Answer

A)  the onset of primary sex characteristics. 
B)  a female's first menstruation. 
C)  the peak of the female growth spurt. 
D)  the onset of secondary sex characteristics.

Question 13

Fourteen-year-old George won a contest sponsored by the local newspaper to celebrate a championship basketball game.The object of the contest was to determine how many words could be made from the word score.Which newly developed ability of formal operational thought would have been most helpful to George?

Accepted Answer

A)  the ability to reason about objects or situations not previously seen or experienced 
B)  the ability to start with a theory and a prediction and arrive at a conclusion 
C)  the ability to use ethical principles for decision-making 
D)  the ability to search systematically and methodologically for the solutions to a problem

Question 14

What factors predict that a teen will drop out of high school?

Accepted Answer

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Exam 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

Employment for working teens beyond 15 to 20 hours per week can be detrimental to academic success and achievement.

A link can be found between parenting styles and sensation-seeking and the likelihood of drug use.Children whose parents have a(n) ________ parenting style are less likely to engage in such behaviours.

__ percent of youth who clocked more than _ hours of screen time per week were overweight/obese.

With regard to schooling,which of the following best characterizes the transition from a lower level of education to high school for most adolescents?

With respect to male adolescent development,which of the following is NOT a variable for a male whose sexual development is earlier than his peers?

Which one of the following has been proven to help with transition to secondary school?

Anorexia nervosa is characterized by periods of binge eating alternating with purging behaviours.

During adolescence,boys are more advanced than girls on which of the following aspects of physical development?

Which of the following statements about menarche is NOT true?

Children being attracted to cross-gender activities or children expressing a desire to be the opposite gender are two sound predictors of a future transgender sexual orientation.

Teenaged girls are twice as likely as teenage boys to report feelings of depression.

Menarche is

What factors predict that a teen will drop out of high school?