Puberty (ch. 6)
__________ is the transitional period between childhood and adulthood during which young people mature physically and sexually.
Adolescence
How many stages are included in Erik Erikson’s stages of psychological development?
8
_____ is a disorder characterized by the excessive pursuit of thinness through voluntary starvation.
Anorexia Nervosa
On average, what age do adolescent girls attain their full height?
age 16
Since the year 2000, has drug abuse by teens in the United States been increasing or decreasing?
Since 2000, drug abuse by teens in the United States has been decreasing.
Which of Erik Erikson's stages of psychological development is typically the dominant crisis of college students (young adulthood)?
Intimacy v/s Isolation
Do more females or males struggle with eating disorders?
Females
The Textbook describes 3 different types of communication. What are they and what do they mean?
Assertive: speakers take into consideration both their own value system and the values of whoever is receiving their message. They consider their own points to be important; yet they also consider the points and reactions of the communication's receiver important.
Aggressive:communication involves bold and dominant verbal and nonverbal behavior in which a speaker presses his or her point of view as taking precedence over all others.
Nonassertive: opposite of aggressive. Speakers devalue themselves. They feel that what the other person involved thinks is much more important than their own thoughts.
An Adolescent female who is sexually active has a _____% chance of becoming pregnant within one year of unprotected intercourse.
90%
According to James Marcia's research, which method of coping with adolescence leads people to never resolve the dominant crisis of this period of life?
Identity Diffusion
The textbook lists four different types of gangs. What are those four types?
Criminal, conflict, retreatist, cult/occult gang
Name each letter on the SADPERSONS scale and describe what it is used for.
The SADPERSONS scale is used to determine risk factors with an individual who is suicidal.
Sex, Age, Depression, Previous Attempt, Ethanol and other drug abuse, Rational Thinking Loss, Social Supports Lacking, Organized Plan, No Spouse, Sickness
Explain how birth control pills work.
Birth control pills prevent ovaries from ovulating, or releasing eggs for fertilization.
According to Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development, which level is achieved when individuals begin to decide for themselves what is right and wrong and no longer rely on what other people think or the rewards and punishments they receive from obedience?
Post conventional
Alcoholics Anonymous is an example of what type of group?
Self-help group
When discussing growth and sexual maturity in adolescence, the textbook describes The Secular Trend. Describe The Secular Trend.
This tendency toward increasing size and earlier achievement of sexual maturity is referred to as the secular trend.