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