Exam 1 PSYS 422

Which of the following adolescents is most likely to maintain a healthy weight?

Charice, who is a member of her school's tennis team

Which of the following individuals is likely to have the most difficulty negotiating the transition into adolescence in the United States?

Charlie, a Native American

Which of the following terms applies more to adolescent thought than to childhood thought?

Flexible, speculative, abstract

A recent study found that instruction in which of these lessened some of the stresses felt by adolescents in poor urban neighborhoods?

Mindfulness

Which of the following statements about puberty's impact on family relationships is true?

Puberty appears to increase distance between parents and children

Individuals are more likely to engage in risky behavior when they see the behavior as

a personal choice rather than an ethical dilemma

In contemporary America, the process of social definition, which typically begins at age 15 or 16, is something that occurs over:

a relatively long period of time

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

Studies show that adolescent mood swings are most closely related to changes in:

activities

One common aspect of social redefintion during adolescence is ______ of the difference between males and females.

an accentuation

Sex differences in brain organization predetermine

certain patterns in behavior

Research on religious changes during adolescence indicates that

children are more strict observers of religious customs

Malkhaz believes that there is nothing wrong with drinking a little beer because, "Everyone my age does it once in a while, and I'll be a social outcast if I don't have a drink." Malkhaz's level of moral development would be described as

conventional stage

Tam is good at drawing conclusions from given information. Thus, Tam is good at ________ reasoning.

deductive

Why is it so difficult to draw a legal boundary between when someone should be treated like a child and when someone is ready to be treated like an adult?

development is so rapid and so variable between individuals

The physical developments of puberty are influenced by which of the following?

environmental factors

The adolescent growth spurt:

generally begins two years earlier for girls than for boys

Which of the following sex characteristics is the first to develop in boys?

growth of testes and scrotum

In America, early morning girls are more likely than their late-maturing peers to:

have a more negative self-image

Researchers studied teenagers who live in wealthy neighborhoods and found that they have ______ level of delinquency than teenagers in _____ neighborhoods.

higher; middle-class

Joey enjoys playing the devil's advocate and is always stirring up discussions with his contrary positions. This ability is one aspect of:

hypothetical thinking

According to the textbook, puberty involves all of the following except

increases in intellectual functioning

Which of the following statements about the concept of emerging adulthood is true?

it is a term that applies only to a minority of people in their early 20s

The rapid increase in body fat that adolescent girls experience:

leads to a majority of adolescent girls dieting unnecessarily

compared to the situation 50 or 60 years ago, today's transition to adulthood:

long and disorderly

Which of the following is an example of cognitive autonomy?

refusing to cheat on an exam even when the teacher is not in the room

The universal process through which an individual's position or status is changed by society is called:

social redefinition

Who of the following is likely to have limited economic and occupational success, which will affect the transition into adulthood?

-Ella, who experience an out-of-wedlock pregnancy during adolescence -Lula, who is an unemployed adolescent -Gerald, who dropped out of high school

What is it about adolescent thinking that makes them better problem solvers than children?

-Improvement in memory -improvement in attention -improvement in processing speed

Which of the following statements about changes in the brain during adolescence is true?

Adolescents are more likely than children to use multiple parts of the brain simultaneously.