Exam 2 PSY

Who is likely to reach puberty at the earliest age

Kayyah, a 9 Y/o Aferican-American girl

To help a child rebound from the trauma of a divorce parents should

Keep consistency in the child's life

A females first menstruation is called

Menarche

Which teenage stereotype is FALSE

Most teens drink and abuse drugs

Thriving teens have all of the following qualities EXCEPT:

No interest in taking risks

In collectivist culture parents put more emphasis on ____ than parents in individualist cultures

Obedience

_____Children are frequently named the most-liked category and never appear in the disliked group. They also stand out as being really liked by everyone

Popular

Which of the following has been shown to be the MOST effective stragety for changing children's behavior?

Positive reinforcement

Which of the following is NOT a teaching tip described by the text?

Praise students for their brilliance

Adolescence became a defined life stage in the United States when

President Franklin Roosevelt encouraged universal high school attendance

both anorexia and bulimia involve which of the following

obsession with being thin

John is 7 years old and doe NOT like mew social situations every time he and his mother are in a new situation he stays next to his mother and has even hid behind her. He is demonstrating ____ tendencies

internalizing

Pick the list that includes some of the intelligence evaluated by gardener's multiple intelligence test

interpersonal, intrapersonal, and musical

Effective interventions to reduce bullying center on

making bully a socially unacceptable activity

At what age are parents FIRST apt to grant their teens more autonomy?

mid- to later adolescence

The pre-teen push to be popular has

negative emotional effect if kids succeed of fail

When she reached puberty, Dora became incredibly withdrawn and distant from her parents, but recently she has been reaching out to confide in her mom. According to the research, Dora's behavior is

normal for daughters during the mid - to late teens, but not for sons

Abstinence- focused sex education programs in the United States

are not very effective

Dr.Brainy, a neuroscience, is giving a lecture on teenage brain development. which of the following is NOT a Statement she can make

"We have pinpointed the exact brain regions that make teens behaviorally different from adults"

What is the current average age of first sexual intercourse for adolescence girls and boys in the United States

17.8 for girls and 18 for boys

Peter is at a peak age for physical aggression peter is about age

2 1/2

which of the following 14 Y/O girls is least likely to be sexually active

Bianca whose parents are very religous

Bulimia involves which of the following

Binging and purging

What is Piaget's term for a young child's tenancy to fixate on the MOST striking feature of whatever he or she sees

Centering

This aggressive behavior that is repeatedly carried out via electronic media and is potentially more harmful than traditional bullying

Cyberbullying

when asked why joge likes his friend victor he replies because we both love playing with swords these boys are probably younger children because they describe their friendship in terms of _____ qualities

External

Ms. Jones asks if her child should attend an after-school program at the local Y. Based on the text how should a school counselor response?

First find out if the program is well structured and supervised

The command center that produces the physical changes of puberty is the

HPG axis

Your niece heather hangs around with a small group of girlfriends. You see them at the mall giggling at a group of boys. According to the standard pattern, what is the next step?

Heather and her clique will meld into a large heterosexual crowd

christina is trying to potty train her 15 month old daughter but it isn't going well. Why might this be the case

Her frontal lobe is not developed

A 14 Y/O worries that everyone is watching every mistake she makes. According to Elkind, this feeling that everyone is watching her illiterates

Imaginary Audience

_____ Children land in the dislike category often and never appear in the preferred list. They also stand out amongst their classmates in a negative way

Rejected

Marsha is a single mother of three. Her youngest is 3 Y/O. Every time her youngest daughter asks to hug, kiss, or be helped marsh pushes her away. which on the following best describes masha's parenting style?

Rejecting; Neglecting

Which if the following is NOT a tip for making school more intrinsically motivating

Reward the children who do well with special prizes

Samantha can observe her own actions and abilities from an outside frame of reference and can reflect on her feelings. Samantha is showing

Self- awareness

What hormone causes the increase in adolescent boy's muscle mass

Testosterone

overies= Estrogen and Testes=

Testosterone

A teenage thinks I'm never going to have an accident if I drive drunk that only happens to other kids not me. This is a type of thinking that reflects

The personal Fable

Bowdie used to be a model child, but since he hit puberty, he's been getting into trouble and was recently suspended from school. His frantic parents ask, "is my son destined for problems as an adult?" according to the tex, what is the BEST reply?

There is a reasonable chance he'll be fine. The fact that your son is only getting into trouble at this life stage suggest this may be adolescent-limited turmoil

According to the research, witch feeling BEST describes the average teenagers general world view?

Upbeat and happy about the future

centering refers to a child's tenancy to focus on the MOST striking_____ feature of a substance and ____ its dimensions

Visual; Disregard

Ning has a new pimple on her chin this morning. She is mortified and tells her mother that she must transfer to another school because everyone will make fun of her. David Elkind label ning's reaction as showing

adolescent egocentrism

_____ is a broad lable reffering to acts designed to cause harm

aggression

Christina, an early maturing girl will be MOST likely to experience

an interest in older friends

Debbie weighs about 82 percent of her ideal body weight, yet she sees herself as obese and has severely restricted her diet, frequently skipping meals. Debbie suffers from:

anorexia nervosa

when a mother asks you when her son may experience his first sexual feelings, you should answer

around age 10 before the physical signs of puberty occurs

Pick the female teen who seems MOST likely to develop an eating disorder

caroline who has high self effiancy

Samantha and her five best female buddies are

clique

John has reached formal operations. John's unique new talent is that he now can

debate the pluses of positions even if he is opposed to those ideas

Imagine you are designing a model sex education program. According to the textbook author, you should focus on

discuss how to have loving relationships

At what age can parents expect children to become more secretive and distant?

early adolescence

when is an eating disorder MOST likely to develop

early to middle childhood

according to research, when the "bad guys" crowd gets together they

egg each-other on to commit antisocial acts

Mr.SUn goes to bed because I do. This 3 year old's statment shows signs of

egocentrism

The capacity to manage one's feelings is called

emotion regulation

There has been a rise in teenage crimes in your town, and you are at a community meeting to explore solutions. Given what you know about the teenage mind, which intervention(s) should you definitely support?

encourage the local high school to expand its menu of arts classes

what causes adolescent girls breasts to grow and hips to widen?

estrogen

studying only in order to raise one's GPA is an example of

extrinsic motivation

compared to boys, preschool girls are usually superior at

fine motor skills

You are taking this test, and it's so, so easy to look at the next person's answers, but you decide, "No." What would be your reasoning if you are at Kohlberg's conventional stage of moral development?

going aginst the rules is wrong

Long term research on adolescents with eating disorders show that MOST will

grow out of the disorder

pick the primary sex characteristics

growth of penis

Undernourished children tend to

have physical and social skills

Robin, a teacher, is about to transfer from fourth grade to the local high school, and she is excited by all the things that her older students will be able to do. Based on what you have learned about Piaget's formal operational stage, pick out which new capacity Robin may find among her students

he high schoolers will be able to debate different ideas even if they don't personally agree with them

Three year old Micah thinks his father turned into a monster when he put his clown mask. Micah's inabillity to grasp that a person's core self stays the same despite changes in appearance shows he is too young to understand

identity constancy

Testosteron is produced

in both boys and girls

Judith Harris proposed that the main force shaping children's behavior is thier____ rather than their parents

peers

Feliciano decides not to rob a backpack from an open locker at school because he is afraid of getting caught. Feliciano is operating at Kohlberg's _____ level of moral reasoning.

preconventional

Aliyah thinks that her sister is a princess when she wears a tiara in her hair and a servant when she wears old clothes. aliyah is in the _______ stage and is probably ______

preoperational ; in preschool

the internal and external changes related to physically becoming an adult are called

puberty

being obese or having a high BMI predicts

reaching puberty at a younger age for girls

A core change unique to formal operations is that teens can

reason abstractly about hypothetical possibilities

According to David Elkind, teenagers question society's rules and become involved in idealistic causes because they can

reason abstractly and so they realize that adult rules are often arbitrary and wrong

Pick the word that BEST characterizes boy's reaction to spermache

secrative

The decline in the average age of reaching puberty in the developed world is called the

secular trend puberty

_____ is crutual code that gives men greater sexual freedom than women

sexual double standard

which is the correct order that heterosexual young people follow in getting to a romantic relationship

single-sex clique; crowds; mixed-sex cliques

High school made adolescence a defined life stage because teens now

spent their days together as a separate group

The male sign of fertility-an event in boys comparable to menache in girls is called

spermache

The cerebral cortex takes until________ to physiologically mature

the 20s

Pick the first sign of puberty in girls

the growth spurt

what hormonal chain reaction triggers the onset of puberty

the hypothalamic hormone cause the pituitary to secrete hormones causing the ovaries and testes to develop and secrete hormones

Taylor is three years old and has a cat named Rudy, In the car. Taylor's mother says, "look there is a cat." Taylor replies, "thats not cat, that not Rudy!" Taylors sematic mistake is called an

underextension

Although research and theories about adolescence may offer differing views, adolescents are:

upbeat and happy about their lives but also experience emotional extremes

Rashid is 14 years old. Based on the research he is Most at risk of getting into trouble when he is

with a group of friends

Pamela is a 14 Y/o girl, statistically her first sexual experience will Most likely occur

within a steady relationship