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Terms in this set (127)The Children's Crusade in the Middle Ages was composed mostly of a. children younger than 10 but older than 7. C In the 1800s, an increase in social problems among young people may have been due in part to a. reduced family ties among people living in cities. A Imagine you are a 13-year-old boy living in the United States in 1902. You most likely would be a. going to secondary school. C One of the important changes in Western countries, which began to define the "Age of Adolescence," was a. the implementation of child labor laws. A The term "socioeconomic status" is often used to refer to a person's a. social class. A G. Stanley Hall is credited as the initiator of the a.
inventionist movement. D Margaret Mead's ethnographic research challenged Hall's claim that adolescent "storm and stress" has a universal biological basis. Mead's finding is based upon which of the following? a. Many youth in non-Western cultures that she studied had neither a stormy nor a stressful
adolescence. A With regard to the notion of "storm and stress" first coined by G. Stanley Hall, a modern psychologist is most likely to believe a. completely in Hall's definition of storm and stress. C Jason is a well-adjusted, happy adolescent. According to Anna Freud, Jason has a. become a productive member of society. B The goal of being self-focused in emerging adulthood is to a. create a permanent state as individuals enter adulthood. B When conducting survey research, why would one need to make sure the sample is "stratified"? a. because a random sampling is problematic in this case D Phoenix, a research assistant, is going to "draw names out of a hat" to select research participants for his study. Phoenix would be a. choosing a random sample. A When G. Stanley Hall defined adolescence, he felt it applied to young people aged a. 5 through 15. C Helen is 10 years old. According to the modern conception of adolescence, Helen would be considered a. a child. B Emerging adulthood only exists in cultures where young people are allowed to a. postpone entering adult roles. A Which statement concerning the developmental period known as emerging adulthood is most accurate? a. Most adolescents do not move through the emerging adulthood
period. B According to anthropological research, in most traditional, non-Western cultures, a person attains adult status with a. employment. C Which statement best reflects conclusions about traditional cultures based on anthropologists' observations? A person is considered an adult a. when old enough to vote. B In the scientific method, the sample is meant to represent the a. population. A When scholars who study adolescents and emerging adults select a sample of the population to study, the most important consideration is that the sample a. is representative of the population they are interested in. A Consent forms typically do NOT include a. information on the purpose of the study. D In a research study, appropriate procedure usually requires the consent of a parent or guardian a. for adolescents 12 and under. C Seema is conducting a study of how adolescents spend their time and wants to collect unbiased data. Which of the following should she NOT do? a. Phrase questions in a way that leads to a desired answer. A An advantage of questionnaires with a closed question format is that they a. are
easier for the participants to understand. B One limitation of research questionnaires is that a. these measures may not capture the complexity of the issues being investigated. A Beryl, a researcher studying adolescents' friendships, wants to understand her research participants' unique lives in-depth and from their own perspectives. The best choice of method would be a. experience sampling method. B The main disadvantage of the case study method of research is that it is a. not very rich in details. C What is the simplest form of experimental research? a. a double blind study focusing on a
placebo D The truthfulness of a measure best defines which of the following concepts? a. validity A Mark has constructed a test to measure adolescents' creativity. After administering the test many times with different groups of adolescents, Mark found that the test consistently measured adolescents' ability to solve math problems. This test is a. valid, but not reliable. D Which type of research involves collecting data from a sample of people on a single occasion, with the goal of examining those data for relationships between variables in the data, based on the hypotheses of the study? a. longitudinal protocols B A statistical relationship between two variables that cannot be used to determine cause-and-effect relationships is called a(n) a. sample. D Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) are the two gonadotropins released by the pituitary gland that are responsible for: a. stimulating the development of the gametes. A An adequate level of the protein ___________ is required to signal the ___________ to increase its production of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and initiate the process of puberty. a. leptin; hypothalamus A Which of the following best illustrates the concept of asynchronicity? a. Some body parts grow faster than others during the growth spurt. A Which of the following best represents the occurrence of the adolescent growth spurt? a. The growth spurt begins about age 11 for girls and age 13 for boys. A Jack is 12 years old, and unbeknownst to him his body is working to produce sperm now that he has reached puberty. Which of the following is Jack experiencing? a. Development of the primary sex characteristics, specifically spermarche A Both girls and boys tend to follow the same order of the development of secondary sex characteristics. Which of the following reflects the typical first secondary sex characteristic to develop? a. Appearance of pubic hair A Debbie is growing pubic hair and breast buds. Which of the following is Debbie likely to experience next regarding her pubertal development? a. The growth spurt A Jack is a 15-year-old boy in middle school in the United States. Jack recently visited his doctor, and his BMI indicated he is obese. According to researchers, which of the following is the most likely explanation for Jack's obesity? a. Soft drinks and junk food are available in Jack's school. A Alisha is an African American girl growing up in the United States, and Jamila is an African girl growing up in Kenya, Africa. Alisha experienced menarche at 12 years old, and Jamila experienced menarche at 16 years old. Which of the following is the best explanation for the difference in the age at which they experienced menarche? a. Accessibility to high-quality nutrition and medical care in the United States A Although research by Schlegel and Barry in 1991 found that about _______% of the traditional cultures they assessed had pubertal rituals, since this time globalization has _______ the prevalence of these pubertal rituals. a. 75; decreased A Valerie is a 13-year-old White adolescent girl growing up in the United States who recently experienced menarche and is also showing visible secondary sex characteristics such as breast development. Which of the following best reflects Valerie's family relationships now that she has reached puberty? a. Valerie and her parents now have a distant relationship, in which she feels less close to her parents. A Imagine that Adeline is a 13-year-old girl growing up in America in the 1890s. What is Adeline's most likely response to her experience of menarche, and why? a.
Adeline is likely to be shocked and scared about menarche because the culture of her time did not advocate educating young women about menarche. A Girls who mature later compared to their peers are likely to experience which of the following? a. teasing A Which of the following best summarizes the theory of genotype → environment effects? a. Both genetics and environmental factors make contributions to human development, in which genes influence the kind of environment experienced. A According to the theory of genotype → environment effects, __________ genotype → environment effects become _________ salient during adolescence because parental control tends to diminish and youth spend more time away from the family of origin. a. passive; less A The ___________ begins to increase its production of ___________ to initiate puberty, which actually occurs in middle childhood at least a year or two before even the earliest bodily changes of puberty. a. hypothalamus; gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) A The two primary hormones that the pituitary gland releases to stimulate the development of the gametes are: a. follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH). A Kevin and Katie are both 13-year-old adolescents who have just begun to show the observable changes of puberty. Increases in the sex hormones have influenced these observable changes, with Kevin producing more _________ than Katie and Katie producing more _________ than Kevin. a. testosterone; estradiol A Emmy and Matthew are 18-year-old adolescents and as such have undergone puberty. Which of the following best illustrates how Emmy and Matthew are different in terms of their physical growth by the end of puberty? a. As a result of a higher level of testosterone production during puberty, Matthew has a higher muscle-to-fat ratio than Emmy at the end of puberty. A During puberty, increases in the production of the sex hormones promote the development of eggs and sperm and the sex organs, which are called the _____________________. a. primary sex characteristics A Which of the following exemplifies the development of secondary sex characteristics? a. Leslie is 14 years old and has noticed her skin is oilier and more prone to acne. A David has begun to shave because of the growth of his facial hair over the past few months. Which of the following has David already experienced regarding his pubertal development? a. Spermarche A Access to a culture's technologies that include adequate ________ and _________ can influence the timing of puberty because puberty takes place earlier when health conditions are favorable. a. nutrition; medical care A In traditional cultures, puberty rituals for male adolescents typically involve activities that require boys to display which of the following characteristics? a. Strength and courage A Which of the following traditional cultures engages in mikveh, which is a ritual bath taken a week after an adolescent girl's first period as a way of cleansing themselves of the impurity believed to be associated with menstruation? a. Orthodox Jews A _________ studies help disentangle the correlational limitation of interpreting passive genotype → environment effects. a. Adoption A
Which of the following best reflects an example of active genotype → environment effects? a. An adolescent boy chooses to volunteer in the local animal shelter because of his longstanding interest in becoming a veterinarian. A ________ genotype → environment effects occur when a person's inherited characteristics stimulate responses from others in their environment. a. Evocative A According to the theory of genotype → environment effects, __________ genotype → environment effects are stable from childhood through emerging adulthood. a. evocative A An increase in _________ during adolescence is hypothesized to be the main factor explaining increases in active genotype → environment effects. a. autonomy A Which of the following statements best summarizes what scholars believe explains the secular trend in the age of puberty? C When Piaget shifted his interest from studying mollusks to
studying human development, he was interested in D In terms of Piaget's theory of cognitive development, what statement does NOT belong? C Anthony thinks that the sun is alive and walks across the sky every day. According to Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory, Anthony would be in what stage? A Mental operations performed by children in the concrete
operational stage (age 7-11) are limited to what they can D Marty is at the park with his friends. They want to build a seesaw they can use. Every time Marty chooses a board, he moves the
stone fulcrum and changes the number of people on the seesaw. Marty is most likely C Hypothetical-deductive reasoning is defined as A Who is the most likely to understand the metaphor "life is like a box of chocolates"? A The primary purpose of metacognition is to monitor and reason about a. feeling. D Lorraine is a 14-year-old girl who knows when she is studying she needs to monitor her comprehension. Lorraine is employing ________ skills. C The primary purpose of pragmatism is to enhance logical thinking with an awareness of A Suppose you were a participant in a study on the original information processing theory of cognition. Your thought processes would be understood by comparing them to the D While Lynn is trying to read a book, her daughter Jennifer is listening to loud music in the same room. In order for Lynn to concentrate on her book, she needs to employ a. divided attention. D Which of the following individuals provides the best example of divided attention? B There are two types of short-term memory: one type is involved in the input and storage of new information, the other type of short-term memory is known as ________ memory. C It is reasonable to conclude that as automaticity decreases, what increases? A Fifteen-year-old Donny can read his math textbooks quickly. His little sister, Marie, also reads her math books, but it takes her longer and she
stumbles over some words. Donny is demonstrating greater D In the 19th century, some prominent scientists concluded that women were intellectually inferior because they had B Which statement best characterizes the current climate in American high schools? D According to the text, one possible explanation of why adolescents and adults differ in decision making is because mature decision making requires both a. short-term and long-term memory. D The term "adolescent egocentrism" refers to an adolescents' beliefs that C Bob and his friends have developed a new game. After school, they all climb aboard a freight train, and when it crosses the river, they dive off the top of the box cars into the water. This dangerous behavior is best
explained by the A The personal fable is built upon what concept? C According to the text, optimistic bias is defined as B Jared and his dad are working on Jared's calculus homework. While Jared is quick to respond when he sees information that he learned in class, Jared's dad, Greg, uses his years of experience to figure out the answer. As compared to Greg, Jared possesses better B Which
psychologist is credited with the development of a cultural approach to cognition? D According to the text, Vygotsky's concept of the zone of proximal development is defined as A Which item is NOT considered one of the multiple types of intelligence proposed by Howard Gardner? a. logical mathematical D Overproduction of synaptic connections occurs in many parts of the brain's gray matter but is especially concentrated in the C
What process functions to keep the brain's electrical signals on one path and increases processing speed? A Which statement best characterizes the term symbolic inheritance? a. the processes by which people acquire the behaviors and beliefs of the culture they live in C Providing consolation, guidance, and hope to people confronting existential questions defines the concept of a. self-regulation. D According to the text, one important reason why adolescents need to learn self-regulation is to regulate a. individualism. B In the Jewish tradition, the bar/bat mitzvah a. signifies that an adolescent is allowed to drink
alcohol. B The contrast between individualism and collectivism is best captured in a discussion about a. poetic-conventional faith. C Tish is a 15-year-old girl who believes that everyone should be his or her "own person," make his or her own decisions, and have the freedom to choose a course in life. Of the following, where would Tish most likely live? a. Japan D In a culture characterized by narrow socialization, what traits are highly prized? a. obedience and
conformity A Which of the following sources of socialization diminish in influence during adolescence? a. nuclear and extended family A Kakari is an Australian Aborigine child. Kakari likely lives by what set of cultural beliefs? a. The Koran C The Boy Scouts were conceived as a way to overcome the perceived danger of D Juan is the
child of Marta and José. Juan lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his parents and two sisters. Juan is a second generation Latino. According to the text, Juan is more likely than most majority American adolescents to D According to the text, which statement about religion is TRUE? a. Religious beliefs are high among European adolescents as well as European senior citizens B
According to the text, what developed country has more religious people than virtually any other? a. France D In the American majority culture, adolescents who are more religious report a. higher rates of premarital sex. B How are Ramadan and the Koran related? a. Ramadan and the Koran are holy rituals practiced by Muslims. B Tanya is a 16-year-old girl living in Salt Lake City. Tanya has attended church regularly for as long as she can remember. Lately she is not attending regularly and only goes to mass on holidays. According to the text, what is one possible reason for Tanya's change? a. She feels the secular pressure from peers. C Adina tells people that she is Jewish, and she goes to Friday evening services at her temple when she has no other plans. She does not believe in keeping Kosher because she loves to eat bacon, but she does fast for 24 hours during the holiday of Yom Kippur. In the National Study on Youth and Religion, Adina would fit into which category? a. Religiously indifferent/hostile D Current studies of self-reported participation in religious activities have concluded that self-reports are probably a. accurate. C According to the text, who was the most influential scholar on adolescent moral development? a. Albert Bandura B If you were a research participant of Lawrence Kohlberg's moral development project, you would be a(n) a. 10-year-old boy. A Kohlberg's theory of moral development is based on a. how children and adolescents discussed the rules of games. C Giselle reasons at Kohlberg's Stage 1: punishment and obedience orientation. What would Giselle be most likely to say about lying? a. "Lying is OK if there are benefits for me." D Kohlberg's Stage 3 (in Level 2) is characterized by a. reference to social order. B After following his participants for 20 years, Kohlberg found a. the majority remained in transition. D Which statement best characterizes Kohlberg's conclusions concerning moral development? a. Moral development is not related to intelligence. D Mick and Steve are two emerging adults living in Pittsburgh. According to the classification system of Lawrence Kohlberg, Mick's level of moral development is higher than Steve's. If Mick and Steve are the same age, what can we predict about Mick? a. Steve comes from a middle-class family and Mick from a working class family. B According to the text, Kohlberg's theory has been subject to many critiques. One of these is based on ________-related factors. a. design C Imagine you wrote a paper that agreed with the gender critique of Kohlberg's theory of moral development. You would most likely have researched the work and writings of a. Piaget B According to Carol Gilligan's (1982) critique of Kohlberg's theory of moral development, Kohlberg's theory is biased towards a. a justice orientation. A In terms of political views, Pierre believes that no matter when you steal, you go to jail. His sister Margaret knows that sometimes you may not be punished
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