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A national study revealed that close to blank of the US adolescents met the federal government's exercise recommendations

1/2

In 2013, about blank of 9th graders in the United States reported being sexually active.

1/5

Anorexia nervosa is blank more likely to occur in females than males

10 X

What is the typical age range for the beginning of puberty in boys

10 to 13 and 1/2

In the US, more than blank million of sexually active adolescents have contracted an STI.

3

According to research what percentage of adolescents do not use condoms during their last sexual encounter

34%

In about blank of Motor Vehicle fatalities involving adolescents, the driver has a high level of alcohol in the blood

50%

What is the normal age range in which menarche occurs?

9 to 15

Time-honored ways that adolescents move toward accepting parental values with their behaviors of ________.

Acting out and Boundary testing

As a life. Blank is a critical juncture in the adoption of behaviors relevant to health.

Adolescence

Anorexia nervosa typically begins in the early to Middle blank years

Adolescent

Anorexia nervosa typically begins in the early to middle ______ years

Adolescent

Which ethnic and gender group exercises the least?

African American girls

The seat of emotions in the brain is called a blank it matures earlier than the prfrontal cortex.

Amygdala

Which eating disorder involves a Relentless pursuit of Dennis there starvation?

Anorexia nervosa

Blank control their eating by restricting it, but mice blank cannot do so

Anorexics, bulimics

Getting less sleep at night has been linked to higher incidence of blank among adolescents.

Anxiety, depression, fatigue

According to research, which of the following statements are true regarding sexual behavior in adolescence belonging to different ethnic and cultural groups?

Asian American adolescents have the more restrictive sexual timetable. African-American adolescents report being the most sexually active.

Cognitive control involves effective control of blank, reducing interfering thoughts, and being cognitively flexible.

Attention

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder in which the individual constantly follows a blank pattern.

Binge Purge

Girls consistently have a more negative blank blank than boys throughout puberty

Body image

Which of the following criteria are recommended for Effective schools for young adolescents?

Boosting students health and fitness, the involvement of parents, lower student to counselor ratios

A 14 year old eats well and exercises regularly, research suggests that this Behavior will help to the delay or prevent the following?

Certain diseases, disabilities, mortality from certain illnesses

In terms of the timing of puberty, how do children in the United States compared with children in European countries?

Children in the United States which are up to one year earlier than children in the European countries

According to Kuhn, blank and cognitive function is present across individuals by adolescence

Considerable variability

According to kuhn, blank and cognitive functioning is present across individuals by adolescents.

Considerable variability

Adolescents exhibit which of the following reactions to their sexuality?

Curiosity vulnerability and confusion

Illicit drug use Among Us students blank in the late 1990s

Declined

In the United States the average age of menarche has blank since the mid-nineteenth century

Declined significantly

In which stage of adolescence is dissatisfaction with the body most prevalent

Early adolescence

In which stage of adolescence is the satisfaction with a body most prevalent

Early adolescence

In sixth grade, blank girls show greater satisfaction with their figures than blank girls

Early maturing, late maturing

Imaginary audience

Emerges from adolescents belief that others are as interested in them as they themselves are and that everyone is watching them.

The hormone most closely associated with female development is

Estradiol

What term is used to describe the most important cognitive change and adolescents involving cognitive control, making decisions, and monitoring thinking critically?

Executive functioning

Culture and education

Exerts stronger influences on cognitive development than piaget maintained

True or false scientists have found that adolescents brains undergo minimum structural changes

False

Identify which life influences affect how an adolescent moves into adulthood

Gender, social economics, ethnicity, culture

When considering gender differences in weight gain during early adolescence, blank tend to outweigh blank.

Girls, boys

In 2013, close to blank 12th graders in the United States reported currently being sexually active

Half of

G. Stanley blank proposed that adolescence is a Time charged with turmoil and mood swings.

Hall.

How does the media portray today's adolescents?

Has trouble done distressed

The corpus callosum where fibers connect to the range left and right ________, thickens and Adolescence, which improves information processing.

Hemispheres

Researchers have found that service learning benefits at elicited which of the two following ways

Her grades, increase goal-setting, higher self-esteem

What are the three leading causes of death in adolescence in the United States?

Homicide, suicide, and accidents

Formal operational thought includes which of the following?

Hypothetical and logical reasoning, abstract prepositions, creation of Make-Believe situations.

Adolescent thinking is full of

Idealism

Activities, interest, styles of behavior, and an indication of sexual orientation or aspects of an individual's sexual

Identity

Activities, interest, styles of behavior, at and an indication of sexual orientation or aspects of an individual's sexual

Identity

What are some of the main characteristics of people suffering from anorexia nervosa?

Inability to maintain a healthy weight, a distorted image of their body shake, and intense fear of gaining weight

Researchers have found that service learning benefits adolescents in which of the following ways

Increase goal-setting, higher grades, higher self-esteem

In what order do the following male characteristics of puberty typically develop?

Increase in penis and testicle size, appearance of straight pubic hair, minor voice change, first ejaculation, onset of Maximum growth in height and weight, growth of facial hair.

Hypothetical deductive reasoning

Involves coming up with a theory, considering its implications, and testing it out

Personal fable

Is the part of adolescent egocentrism that involves a sense of uniqueness and invincibility.

Which of the following statements reflect current theorist views about cognitive development

It is not stage like. Some cognitive abilities emerge earlier than piaget thought.

Comparatively, which of the following ethnic groups is most likely to become pregnant

Latina adolescents

Comparatively, which of the following ethnic groups is most likely to become pregnant?

Latino adolescents

Infants born to adolescent mothers are more likely to have which of the following?

Low birth weight, childhood illnesses,neurological problems

Some critics argue that too often us high schools Foster which characteristics,

Low expectations, Parsippany, and adequacy

Some critics argue that too often u.s. high schools Foster which characteristics?

Low expectations, passivity, inadequacy

Children born to adolescent mothers have blank achievement test scores and more problems in their teens compared to Children whose mothers had their first birth as adults

Lower, neurological

Since information about sexuality is readily available in the United States the majority of adolescents eventually develop a blank sexual identity

Mature

Carskadons study on starting times for schools concluded that early school starting times may cause which of the following?

May cause grogginess, and attention in class, and poor performance on tests

Less than 1% of the United States girls have developed anorexia

Nervosa

Researcher Mary carskadon considers less than blank hours of sleep per night and adequate for adolescents

Nine and a half hours

Which ethnic and gender group exercises the most?

Non-latino white boys

Most people suffering from anorexia nervosa are

Non-latino white females

In one study, the drop in school satisfaction between Elementary School and Junior High School

Occurred regardless of how academically successful the students were

Which of the following factors play an important role in preventing adolescent drug abuse?

Parents, educational success, Peers

Which of the following factors play an important role in preventing adolescent drug abuse

Peers, educational success, parents

Being a bass and Adolescence is blank obesity in emerging adulthood

Predictive of

The highest level of the frontal lobes involved in reasoning, decision making and self-control is called the

Prefrontal cortex

An increasing number of research studies suggest that adolescents tend to portray themselves as vulnerable 2

Premature death

The most important marker for the beginning of adolescence is blank, which ends long before adolescence ends.

Puberty

Which of the following your proven positive effects of exercise and adolescents?

Reduce triglycerides levels, regulation of white status, lower blood pressure and lower risk of type 2 diabetes

What type of learning comes in the form of Education that promotes social responsibility and service to the community

Service Learning

Which of the following statements regarding the dating experience of a gay and lesbian use as false?

Sexual minority used 10 to experience strictly same-sex attraction in dating during adolescence

Adolescence is a time when __________ is Incorporated into ones identity.

Sexuality

Play satellites don't get enough sleep during the week, creating a blank which they attempt to make up for on the weekend

Sleep defect

Early maturing girls are more easily attracted to problem behaviors do to their lack of

Social and cognitive maturity

Which of the following statements reflect current theorists views about cognitive development?

Some cognitive abilities emerge earlier than possess I thought and it is not stage like

Which of the following can activate or suppress the hormone system?

Stress, depression, sexual activity

Which conditions should be met for an effective service learning experience?

Student should have some degree of choice in the service activity in which they participate, and student should be giving ample opportunity to reflect about their experience.

Which condition should be met for an effective service learning experience?

Student should have some degree of choice in the service activity in which they participate, students should be given ample opportunity to reflect about their experience

A higher concentration of the hormone _________ invoice leads to the development of Genitals, a change in voice, and an increasing Heights.

Testosterone

Which of the following statements regarding hormones and gender is true

Testosterone and estradiol levels increase in both boys and girls during puberty. Testosterone increases 18 fold and boys during puberty. Estradiol doll dominates and female pubertal development.

Despite the decline in adolescent pregnancy in the 1990s, blank continues to have one of the highest rates

The US

What were the results of the Berkeley longitudinal study about early maturing boys?

The boys see their selves more positively and have more successful peer relations.

According to the text, which your school can be the most difficult for students?

The first year of Middle School

Adolescent egocentrism refers to

The heightened self-consciousness of adolescence

Which of the following criteria recommended for Effective schools for young adolescents?

The involvement of parents, boosting students health and fitness, lower student to cancel ratios

Where is the sleep-inducing hormone melatonin produced?

The pineal gland

Some adolescent Behavior may be due to

The relatively immature prefrontal cortex being an able to adequately control the strong emotions produced by the amygdala

Some adolescent Behavior maybe due to

The relatively immature prefrontal cortex being an able to adequately control the strong emotions produced by the amygdala

Which of the following statements is false regarding adolescent mothers?

They generally catch up economically with women who bear children in their 20s

According to one study students who moved from 6th grade in elementary school to 7th grade in junior high school attended display which characteristics

They were less committed to school, they were less satisfied with school, they like their teachers less

According to one study, students who moved from 6th grade in an elementary school to 7th grade in a junior high school attended display which characteristics?

They were less committed to school, they were less satisfied with school, they like their teachers less

Moving from being the biggest and all the students in elementary school to being the youngest and least powerful students in middle school is best described by which term?

Top Dog phenomenon

The rate of adolescent suicide has blank since the 1950s.

Tripled

In about half of Motor Vehicle fatalities involving adolescents, the driver is

Under the influence of alcohol

According to Deanna Kuhn young children obtain largely blank cognitive levels, whereas older children and adolescents approach cognitive levels that they blank obtain

Universal, may or may not

Some of the most Visible Changes of puberty are sexual but Eurasian and increases in the height and

Weight