Growth and Development Through the Lifespan Test 3

Because most people only drink in moderation, alcohol use is not a major health problem in the U.S. (t or f)

False

Drug abuse usually decreases by the early 20's (true or false

False

Homosexual pairings tend to develop earlier than heterosexual pairings (true or false)

False

Most adolescents get involved with delinquent acts (true or false)

False

People who do intellectually demanding work usually seek out physically demanding leisure pursuits (t or f)

False

Practical intelligence is described as book smarts (t or f)

False

Stigmatization is a condition of human thinking that cannot change (true or false)

False

Students relationships with others actually improved during middle school in comparison with the relationships in elementary school (true or false)

False

Teen births are more frequent than they were 20 years ago in the Unites States (true or false)

False

The majority of teen births are to married females (true or false)

False

Experts simply have more knowledge about a particular subject. (t or f)

False.......this is because experience is the thing that helps with better knowledge.

Of the sensory systems only hearing and vision decline in middle adulthood (t or f)

False...all of them do

Analytic intelligence is most useful in adulthood (t or f)

False...its most useful during school years

What is senescence? (garpd)

Gradual age related physical decline

Betty is a retired registered nurse who fills in at the local hospital when the staff is in need of nurses. She's frequently called in without advanced notice and must take over without time to get ????. She must rely on intelligence that Sternberg called:

Practical intelligence

1/4 of U.S. adults have a std (true or false)

True

Aggressive children tend to be popular in school (true or false)

True

Almost no teenager drinks or smokes alone for the first time (true or false)

True

Cultural attitudes toward suicide can affect suicide rates (true or false):

True

Doing paid work that is not intellectually challenging appears to decrease an individuals cognitive functioning (t or f)

True

Due to senescence the total size of the brain is reduced with age (t or f)

True

Human cells have a discreet number of cell divisions that they can do (true or false)

True

Many teens report that their friends actively discourage antisocial acts (true or false)

True

Middle aged adults are intellectually in their prime (t or f)

True

Most adult brains function as well at age 60 as they did at age 20 (t or f)

True

School transitions usually bring a drop in grades (true or false)

True

Young adults are more likely to commit suicide than adolescents (true or false):

True

The majority of adults in the world have one lifelong sexual partner (true or false)

True (70%)

One of the first signs of an adolescents growth spurt is:

growth of hands and feet

The capacity to think of all possible factors that might affect the outcome of a problem and test them in an orderly fashion

hypothetical deductive reasoning (its about an order of things)

Tony has thought long and hard, talked to many people before selecting a career in music. When asked if he'd changed his mind if something else came along. He said, "I doubt it". Tony is expressing:

identity achievement

Katrina accepts her family's political and religious beliefs without question. She's characterized by:

identity foreclosure

Shane gets upset when his classmates disagree with him and regards their behavior as a threat. Shane is in which identity status:

identity foreclosure

Although Suzana desperately wants to learn how to dive, she refuses to practice in the pool and said, everybody will be watching me and laugh because I am the only one who can't do it. Her thinking reflects:

imaginary audience

Opinion: Should we teach sex ed in schools? Why or why not?

*yes -takes away the mystery -teaches them about pride in the power of their body -educates about ramifications -lets kids know that they can take all sorts of precautions including: birth control, abstinence, etc.

What does it mean to be a gateway drug.

-Precursor to more serious drugs -3 main ones (cigs., pot, alcohol)

4 characteristics of a successful family:

-communication -support -connectedness -control

What are some benefits of college attendance?

-diversified thinking -higher future income -live longer -stable marriage -(find more)

Older adults are most likely to show increased cognitive abilities with respect to:

-even though crystalized is increased, what we use the most is PRACTICAL PROBLEM SOLVING...surviving in our world, whatever our world is.

Opinion: What can we as a community do to lower high school drop out rates

-find parents or revered adult to talk with kids -discuss at an early age the benefits of learning more -make the discussions part of the daily plan -invest in smaller classes -make sure each kid develops a close relationship with an adult at school or develop a mentorship.

As people go into later adulthood, either crystalized or fluid intelligence decreases but crystalized or fluid intelligence can increase

-fluid -crystalized

Mental abilities that decline in earlier age, typically denote ______ while those that continually increase til later life depend upon _____:

-fluid intelligence -crystalized intelligence

We discussed 3 distorted self-conscious images (or fables) adolescents experience. What are they? (also, might ask you to choose one and describe it)

-imaginary audience -invincibility fable -personal fable

Adolescent friendships need both (I)___+(L)___

-intimacy -loyalty

Name at least 1 gateway drug

-pot -cigs -alcohol

Open Question: What good is dating:

-social -can build confidence -helps you develop what you would want in a mate due to experience

In Erikson's stage of identity vs. role diffusion, we talked about 7 sub stages. What are 2 of them:

-temporal perspective vs. time confusion

Within a group of sexually active adolescents, about how many will contract an std this year

1 in 5

What is crystalized intelligence?

Accumulated knowledge, experience, good judgement and mastery of social skills.

What is the most frequently used drug among most American teens:

Alcohol

Better to be an early or late maturing boy

Early

According to Perry's study of Post Formal Thought, which of the following statements is an example of Dualistic Thought:

I think my college professor is great and believe everything she says (dualistic thought has absolutes)

Better to be an early or late maturing girl

Late

According to Erikson, it is the inability to settle on a ____ identity thats most disturbing young people:

Occupational

In adolescence____ ____ can be negative such as when it promotes conformants to deviant standards or positive such as when it promotes refraining from smoking

Peer pressure

What is considered to be the best treatment for substance abuse

Prevention

Piagetian: the ability to evaluate the logical validity of statements without reference to real world situations is called:

Propositional Thought

According to Perry's work on Post Formal thought, when older or more experienced students view knowledge as embedded in a framework of thought with multiple truths each relative to its own context, they are engaged in:

Relativistic thought

identify the adolescent who appears to be displaying identity diffusion:

Zachary who spends most of his time just hanging out seems apathetic about life.

An adolescents statement that, "but mother you just don't understand. No one understands me", is indicative of:

adolescent egocentrism

Large percentage of highway fatalities, criminal activity, date rape, and domestic violence can be partially attributable to :

alcohol abuse

Which adolescent is to be psychologically healthier:

androgynous identity

compared with novices experts

are more intuitive

What is the most common psychological problem with adolescents?

depression

What is bulimia nervosa

binge and purge

The midlife transition which fertility declines for both genders is called:

climateric

Adolescents tend to develop more mature identities when their parents provide:

close bonds with freedoms to voice their opinions

Which kind of intelligence can increase steadily throughout adulthood

crystalized

the ability to utilize accumulated knowledge and experience with good judgement is called:

crystalized

A great deal of parental interference and control is a strong predictor of:

depression

By proposing, justifying, criticizing and defending a variety of solutions, adolescents:

develop a higher level of understanding than they would attain through individual reasoning.

Each year the student attends college, the thinking becomes increasingly ritualized and inflexible (true or false)

false

most emerging adults have a firm grasp on who they are and have solidly est. their identity (t or f)

false

The term imaginary audience refers to an adolescents:

false belief that everyone is constantly attending to their behavior and appearance.

type of basic intelligence that makes learning quick and thorough is referred to:

fluid

the ability to analyze information quickly and to take patterns and new information is called ______ intelligence:

fluid intelligence

According to Piaget some adolescents arrive at this last stage of cognitive development which is called:

formal operational thought

Your adolescent has begun to challenge the values, plans, and goals that you suggest. You should know that this:

is necessary for developing a mature identity

The decline in fluid intelligence during middle adulthood:

is temporarily counteracted by increases in crystalized intelligence

Jose is starting to suffer from the effects of mild presbycusis. His most notable symptom is forgetting where he left his keys. What is presbycusis?

loss of hearing

Which of the following refers to gender intensification in adolescents:

magnification of sex difference and appearance caused by puberty

What happens during puberty

men (13yr.)- growth in testes, enlarged penis, first ejaculation of seminal fluid, hair, adams apple, voice, muscles, etc. women (12.5yr.)- growth in nipples, period, hair, voice, shape, breasts, etc.

Researchers agree that in middle age:

metabolism slows down by 1/3

Alisa's taking several introductory classes to different careers but has no idea what she wants to be when she graduates. She's taking a psychology class to try to learn more about herself. Alisa's in which identity status:

moratorium

fluid intelligence includes:

the speed of processing mathematical equations

When asked to estimate how much their peers smoke, drink and do drugs college students tend to:

over-estimate

Which parenting style is least effective during adolescence

permissive

By the end of middle age, nearly everybody needs:

reading glasses

What is anorexia nervosa

starvation

Which age group has the highest rate of developing sexually transmitted diseases

teens or adolescents: 14-20

The term gonads refers to:

testes and ovaries

The idea that one cannot be harmed by things that would hurt a normal person is referred to

the invinsibility fable

All of the following are true for high school graduates who choose not to go to college accept

their opportunities for work are greater than several decades ago.

Identify the accurate statement about adolescent crime

there are many 1 time offenders

Emerging adults are the heaviest users of alcohol and cigarettes (true or false)

true

The cognitive changes that occur during college are probably due to the intellectual challenge and the social interaction (t or f)

true

Which of these tasks clearly makes usage of crystalized intelligence:

using the right word to express an idea.

People who do intellectually demanding work:

usually seek out stimulating leisure pursuits that will also foster cognitive flexibility