educ 532 quizZZES
All of the following are true regarding the legal boundary between childhood and adulthood except which one?
. The legal boundary between childhood and adulthood is very clear and consistent.
The term puberty refers to the period during which:
. an individual becomes capable of sexual reproduction.
According to the textbook, puberty involves all of the following except.
. increases in intellectual functioning
Which of the following can delay the onset of puberty?
A. stress B. nutritional deficiencies C. excessive exercise
Which of the following statements about the inventionist perspective is true?
Adolescence is a separate period that has been largely determined by the broader social environment.
In general, according to the textbook, is "Americanization" a positive and desirable experience for immigrant adolescents?
No, Americanization appears to be associated with worse, not better, outcomes.
Based on Grisso and colleague's competency study, should we assume a 15-year-old is definitely more competent than a mentally ill adult who has been found not competent to stand trial; What about a 13-year-old?
No, about 1/5 of 14- to 15-year-olds and about 1/3 of 13 and younger children are likely to be found to be as impaired in their abilities to stand trial as mentally ill adults who have been determined to be not competent to stand trial.
Which of the following statements about the production of hormones at puberty is false?
The body begins to produce several hormones that have not been present in the body up until this time.
What is the most striking aspect of the transition into adulthood for contemporary adolescents?
The extended amount of time between pubertal onset and the achievement of adult work and family roles.
All of the following are themes that have emerged from research studies that investigate different aspects of social cognition during adolescence except which one?
With age, all adolescents increasingly reject the authority of adults by challenging and dismissing the morals established by their parents.
Piaget theorists believe that the use of _____ is the chief feature of adolescent thinking that differentiates it from the type of thinking employed by children.
abstract logical reasoning
The fundamental changes in adolescence include which of the following domains?
all of these
When levels of _____ and _____ fall below the set points, the _____ stops inhibiting the pituitary gland, thus permitting it to stimulate the release of sex hormones by the gonads.
androgens; estrogens; hypothalamus
the stage of development that begins with puberty and ends when an individual's transition into adult roles is called
aolescence
Individuals who were adolescents in the late 1950s and 1960s are known as members of the:
baby-boom generation
the formation of synapses is
both genetically programmed and formed through experience
Theresa has been known to go on eating binges and then purge immediately afterward. Theresa is probably suffering from:
bulimia
Sternberg's "triarchic theory of intelligence" proposes that to assess an individual's intellectual capabilities it is necessary to look at three distinct, but interrelated, types of "intelligence":
componential, experiential, contextual
which of the following is not one of the areas of fundamental change in adc
conceptual
James Coleman believes adolescents develop a different culture from their parents, called a __________, which may be more hostile to the adult's values and beliefs.
counterculture
While studying for her biology exam, Jennifer watches her favorite show on TV. This is an example of:
divided attention
According to the _______ perspective of Urie Bronfenbrenner, we cannot understand development without examining the environment in which it occurs.
ecological
Some researchers have described a new phase of life, developing in the early 20s, that is called ________adulthood.
emerging
Parent and teenager relationships are influenced by the ________ they have about each other
expectations
Avram is considered a late-maturing boy. A year after pubertal onset, we would expect Avram to show all of the following advantages over his early-maturing peers, except:
greater athletic ability
All of the following are features of hypothetical thinking, except:
greater awareness of concrete, observable events.
Although both sexes experience changes in muscle tissue and body fat, the ratio of muscle to body fat is:
greater in boys than girls
john is a junior in high school. Although he is sociable, he feels very self-conscious. He feels as if everyone is evaluating him. David Elkind refers to this loss of perspective in adolescence as:
imaginary audience
Which of the following is not one of the five chief changes in cognition during adolescence?
increased imagination
Which theorist believed that as children mature, they pass through distinct changes in cognitive development?
jean piaget
The average girl in the United States reaches _________, the time of her first menstrual period, sometime between the ages of 12 and 15.
menarche
Relocation studies that have randomly chosen poor families to either stay where they are living or move to a more advantaged neighborhood have found:
mixed results
One aspect of brain maturation that is associated with increases in the speed of neural impulses and improvements in information transmission is:
myelination
early-maturing boys are
often expected to be more mature than they are
The presence or absence of certain hormones early in life may "program" the brain and the nervous system to develop in certain ways later on. These hormones are considered:
organizational
what might explain why adc has been elongated
recent brain imaging studies that have indicated that the prefrontal cortex is still developing until the age of 25
During adolescence, individuals' IQ scores _____, whereas their mental abilities _____.
remain stable; increase
of the following, the biggest threat to adolescent's health is
risky behaviors
A ceremony or ritual marking an individual's transition from one social status to another, especially the transition to adulthood, is called a
rite of passage
Multidimensional thinking helps adolescents understand:
sarcasm
the delayed phase preference suggests that
school should begin later in the morning
Jesse is in the seventh grade at a school that has open classrooms with multiple teachers instructing their classes in one large area. Which of the following cognitive processes will help Jesse focus on his teacher?
selective attention
Changes in social definition will likely have profound effects on developments in the domains of
sexuality, autonomy, achievement, and identity
In the _______ theory of development, adolescents learn how to behave through reinforcement and punishment as well as by watching and imitating those around them.
social learning
The most important legacy of G. Stanley Hall's view of adolescence is the notion of a period of ______ as a result of hormonal changes.
storm and stress
Which of the following statements about the changes in information-processing abilities during adolescence is false?
there are advances in short-term but not long-term memory
Which of the following is not true for adolescents who have been exposed to violence?
they are less likely to experience feelings of hopelessness
Which of the following is not part of the feedback loop in the endocrine system?
thyroid hormones
The messages that contemporary society sends adolescents are
unclear and inconsistent
During the industrial revolution, child protectionists argued that:
young people needed to be kept away from the labor force for their own good