Chapter 11

Question 1

Adolescence

Answer 1

The transition between childhood and adulthood

Question 2

Puberty

Answer 2

A flood of biological events leading to an adult-sized body and sexual maturity

Question 3

Stages of Puberty

Answer 3

1. ) Early Adolescence (11-14) Period of rapid pubertal change
2. ) Middle Adolescence (14-16) Pubertal changes are now nearly complete
3. ) Late Adolescence (16-18) Full adult appearance, anticipates assumption of adult roles

Question 4

Growth Spurt

Answer 4

The first outward sign of puberty is the rapid gain in height and weight

Question 5

Primary Sexual Characteristics

Answer 5

Involve the reproductive organs (ovaries, uterus, and vagina in females; penis, scrotum, and testes in males)

Question 6

Secondary Sexual Characteristics

Answer 6

Visible on the outside of the body and serve as additional signs of sexual maturity (ex, breast development, underarm hair)

Question 7

Menarche

Answer 7

First menstruation

Question 8

Spermarche

Answer 8

First ejaculation

Question 9

Secular Trend

Answer 9

Generational change

Question 10

Body Image

Answer 10

Conception of and attitude toward their physical appearance

Question 11

Anorexia Nervosa

Answer 11

A tragic eating disorder in which young people starve themselves because of a compulsive fear of getting fat

Question 12

Bulimia Nervosa

Answer 12

Young people (mainly girls) engage in binge eating, followed by compensatory efforts to avoid weight gain, such as deliberate vomiting, purging with laxatives, excessive exercise, or fasting

Question 13

Binge-Eating Disorder

Answer 13

Binging at least once a week for three months or longer, without compensatory purging, exercise, or fasting

Question 14

Formal Operational Stage

Answer 14

Piaget, around 11 when they develop the capacity for abstract, systematic, scientific thinking

Question 15

Hypothetico-Deductive Reasoning

Answer 15

The faces with a problem, they start wth a hypothesis, or prediction about variables that might affect an outcome, from which they deduce logical, testable inferences. Then they systematically isolate and combine variables to see which of these inferences are confirmed in the real world

Question 16

Propositional Thought

Answer 16

Piaget’s formal operational stage (part 2). Adolescents’ ability to evaluate the logic of propositions (verbal statements) without referring to real-world circumstances

Question 17

Information-Processing View of Adolescent Cognitive Development

Answer 17

Working memory increases, inhibition improves, attention becomes more selective, planning improves, strategies become more effective, knowledge increases, metacognition expands, cognitive self-regulation improves

Question 18

Imaginary Audience

Answer 18

Adolescents’ belief that they are the focus of everyone else’s attention and concern

Question 19

Personal Fable

Answer 19

Certain that others are observing and thinking about them, teenagers develop an inflated opinion of their own importance - a feeling that they are special and unique