Ch 8: Adolescence

Question 1

sex hormones especially high in females

Answer 1

estrogens

Question 2

sex hormones especially high in males

Answer 2

androgens

Question 3

In pubertal development, the most important estrogen

Answer 3

estradiol

Question 4

About ___ of people treated for anorexia improve, but ___ remain chronically ill

Answer 4

2/3, 1/3

Question 5

What percentage of people with anorexia eventually die from starvation or from physical problems caused by their weight loss?

Answer 5

10%

Question 6

What are the four kinds of substance use?

Answer 6

experimental, social, medicinal, addictive

Question 7

substance use undertaken to relieve an unpleasant emotional state

Answer 7

medicinal

Question 8

in Piaget’s theory, cognitive stage beginning at about age 11 in which people learn to think systematically about possibilities and hypotheses

Answer 8

formal operations

Question 9

Piaget’s term for the process of applying scientific thinking to cognitive tasks

Answer 9

hypothetical-deductive reasoning

Question 10

capacity to think about thinking

Answer 10

metacognition

Question 11

belief that others are acutely aware of an attentive to one’s appearance and behavior

Answer 11

imaginary audience

Question 12

belief in one’s uniqueness, often including a sense of invulnerability to the consequences of taking risks

Answer 12

personal fable

Question 13

three types of moral reasoning in adolescents?

Answer 13

preconventional, conventional, postconventional

Question 14

moral reasoning is based on perceptions of the likelihood of external rewards and punishments

Answer 14

preconventional reasoning

Question 15

moral reasoning is based on expectations of others

Answer 15

conventional reasoning

Question 16

moral reasoning is based on the individual’s own judgements rather than on what other’s view as right and wrong

Answer 16

postconventional reasoning