Exam 3

____________ is a period of rapid physical growth and sexual maturation, which signals the end of childhood, that involves hormonal and bodily changes.

Puberty

__________ is a term used to describe a girl's first menstrual period, signaling that she has begun ovulation.

menarche

Because menstruation depletes iron, anemia is more common among adolescent girls compared to adolescent boys. 

True

The _________ is a tiny part in the brain that sends hormones to the pituitary.

hypothalamus

______ can be defined as a relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation

Anorexia Nervosa

Joan notices that when her friend sits down to eat, she eats a lot of food and then excuses herself to the restroom where she vomits. Joan then realizes that her friend has been doing this quite often lately. According to your text, what is the term associated with this type of behavior?

Bulimia Nervosa

Body characteristics that are directly involved in conception and pregnancy are called ____________ sex characteristics.

primary

Child sexual abuse is defined as any sexual activity (including fondling and photographing) between a juvenile (adolescent/child) and an adult.

 

True

__________ rhythms describe a day-night cycle of biological activity that occurs approximately every 24 hours

Circadian

According to Jean Piaget, during adolescence, youth experience _____________.

formal operational thought

Jamie is 13 years old and tends to think deeply about her own actions. In addition, she tends to wonder what others think about her. In fact, she tends to believe that she is at center stage in all situations, with all eyes on her. Which term is best associated with Jamie's thought process?

imaginary audience

_____________is the belief that one’s own emotions, experiences, and destiny are unique and more awful than anyone else’s.

Personal Fable

During adolescence, youth are able to think both ______________ and _______________

inductively : deductively

A teacher feels that their students dislike them. As a result, the teacher becomes less personable and more distant. 

According to your textbook, what is the teacher experiencing?

stereotype threat

According to your textbook, there are three factors that converge to make it problematic in middle school. Which of the following is not one of the three factors?

Youth begin to be more empathetic and try to support each other through social media use

According to James Marcia, how do young people cope with the identity crisis?

Role Confusion, Foreclosure, Moratorium, Achievement

Achievement is the opposite of ___________________.

role confusion

Jimmy adopts his parents’ values without questioning or analyzing them. According to James Marcia, Jimmy is experiencing Identity ____________.

Foreclosure

Parental Monitoring refers to parents' knowledge about their child's ___________.

whereabouts, activities, companions

_________________ is the belief that family members should support one another, sacrificing individual freedom and success, if necessary, in order to preserve family unity and protect the family from outside forces.

Familism

According to your textbook, Erikson highlighted four aspects of identity. Which of the following was not one of the four listed?

ethnic

_________________ can be defined as "encouragement to conform to one's friends or contemporaries in behavior, dress, and attitude." 

Peer pressure

Johnny just turned 12 years old, according to Eric Erikson, which stage is Johnny experiencing?

Identity vs. Role Confusion

Generational forgetting refers to:

the idea that each new generation forgets what the previous generation learned.

According to your textbook, which reason would be considered as the most common reason why teens cyberbully?

to get back at the victim

The rate of serious depression _____________ during adolescence. 

more than doubles

According to your text, ______________ refers to any potentially lethal action against the self that does not result in death.

parasuicide

Major depressive disorder (MDD), refers to _______________________.

a deep sadness and hopelessness that disrupts all normal, regular activities

Life-course-persistent offenders typically _________________.

become a career criminal

Over the past 30 years adolescent crime has decreased. Which of the following reasons have been noted as possible explanations for this decrease?

fewer high school dropouts, less drug use

According to your textbook, _______________ is the developmental stage that spans 18-25 years of age.

Emerging Adulthood

Postformal thought is:

a proposed adult stage of cognitive development.

______________________ is the thought that in a person's mind that one's appearance or behavior will be misread to confirm another person's oversimplified, prejudiced attitudes.

Stereotype threat

According to Erikson's theory, during Emerging Adulthood, after achieving identity, which crisis are individuals experiencing.

Intimacy vs. Isolation

Jim (24 years old) has been dating Sue (23 years old) for about 10 months. They both decide that they want to make a strong commitment to each other by getting married. According to Erikson, what are Jim and Sue experiencing?

Intimacy

______________ refers to lives in which success, health, and well-being of each family member are connected to those of other members.

Linked lives

An example of Moratorium in Emerging Adulthood is ___________.

taking a gap year before college, volunteer for one year to do volunteer service, mission service, and social justice work

Jim shovels the snow off of his grandmother's 24 foot driveway. Even though he is exhausted by the time he is finished, his body is able to cope with the extraordinary strain he just experienced. According to your text, what term explains Jim’s ability to cope with this type of physical strain?

Organ reserve

According to a nationwide survey of 14,155 men and women, both women and men experienced physical violence from an intimate partner.

True

Situational couple violence occurs when both partners fight.

True

According to your textbook, the main difference between allostasis and homeostasis is ___________. 

time

Insufficient sleep increases ________________ and decreases _______________.

appetite : energy

______________ is an arrangement in which a couple lives together in a committed romantic relationship but are not formally married.

Cohabitation

Massification refers to the idea _________________.

that establishing institutions of higher learning and encouraging college enrollment can benefit everyone (the masses)

In August of 2020 ______ percent of 18-24 year olds lived with their parents.

71