This structure within the brain, along with the pituitary gland, monitors and regulates the release of hormones.
What is the hypothalamus?
100
Escalating conflict between parents and adolescents is precipitated by physical, cognitive, social, and _______ changes resulting from the onset of puberty.
What are emotional changes?
100
The four most common types of drugs that are regularly abused by adolescents are narcotics, stimulants, hallucinogens, and ________.
What are depressants?
100
This psychologist proposed that at approximately age 11, children transition to the final cognitive stage, the formal operational stage.
Who is Jean Piaget?
100
Three of the most common eating disorders in adolescents are anorexia, binge eating, and _______.
What is bulemia?
200
This hormone is associated with breast, uterine, and skeletal development in girls.
What is estradiol (estrogen)?
200
This is the family member middle-school aged adolescents tend to conflict with the most.
Who is their mother?
200
The acronym DARE stands for this.
What is Drug Abuse Resistance Education?
200
Critical thinking and complex decision making are examples of this form of cognition that increases dramatically during adolescence.
What is executive functioning?
200
This is a disorder that causes many adolescents to severely restrict their food intake to the point of starvation.
What is anorexia nervosa?
300
This is the number of years that girls begin puberty, on average, prior to boys.
What is 2 years?
300
This is the stage when conflict between parents and children.
What is early adolescence?
300
This is the approximate percentage of adolescents that use illegal substances.
What is 25%?
300
This type of memory, proposed by psychologist Alan Baddeley, serves as a "place" where information is manipulated and assembled.
What is working memory?
300
Both boys and girls should eat a diet high in this mineral from age 9 through 18 to promote bone growth.
What is calcium?
400
This hormone is associated with changes in voice, increase in height, and development of genitals in boys.
What is testosterone?
400
This tool can be used by teachers to empower young adolescents to resolve conflicts with parents.
What is practical problem solving?
400
Drug use overall ________ during college.
What is decreases?
400
This manifestation of egocentrism in adolescents is the belief that others are as interested in them as they are in themselves.
What is the imaginary audience?
400
Calcium and _______ are two of the most important minerals to the developing adolescent.
What is iron?
500
This is the last dramatic physical change that occurs in males during puberty.
What is facial hair?
500
These teachers are in a unique position to teach adolescents skills that can reduce conflict with their family and prepare them for some of the basic demands of independant life.
What are consumer sciences teachers?
500
This is the use of drugs to the point of causing harm either due to legal risk or to the risk of harming oneself or others.
What is drug abuse?
500
These skill sets, such as mathematics and basic literacy, must be mastered before higher-order cognition such as critical thinking can reasonably be expected.
What are fundamental skills?
500
Pressures that affect adolescent food choices such as cultural ideals of thinness, gaining peer acceptance, and trying to be independant from parents are known as ________ pressures.