Chapter 11

Question 1

What is the feedback loop?

Answer 1

Hypothalamus signals the pituitary gland, which releases hormones that control physical growth and the gonads; increasing the production of sex hormones; sex hormones stimulate the hypothalamus, perpetrating the feedback loop

Question 2

What are female primary sex characteristics?

Answer 2

Ovaries, vagina, uterus, fallopian tubes

Question 3

What are male primary sex characteristics?

Answer 3

Penis, testes, prostate gland, seminal vesicles

Question 4

When do adolescents tend to have growth spurts?

Answer 4

Girls at age 10, boys at age 12

Question 5

What is the secular trend?

Answer 5

Faster growth and development, greater average heights and earlier maturation than earlier children

Question 6

What is stage 5 of Kolberg’s moral development?

Answer 6

Legalistic and contractual; weighing pressing human needs against society’s need to maintain social order (only 20% of adolescents get to stage 5)

Question 7

What is stage 6 of Kolberg’s moral development?

Answer 7

Based on universal ethical principles of human life; people must follow universal ethical principles and their own conscious even if it means breaking the law (only 5% of adolescents get to stage 6)

Question 8

Piagets formal operations is:

Answer 8

Cognitive maturity, increased ability to reason abstractly, engage in logical thought and hypothesize

Question 9

What is hypothetical thinking?

Answer 9

When adolescents project themselves into situations that transcend their immediate experience and become wrapped up in fantasies

Question 10

What is the imaginary audience?

Answer 10

When adolescents place themselves on centre stage and assume everyone is concerned with their appearance or behaviour

Question 11

What is the personal fable?

Answer 11

Believing one’s thoughts and emotions are unique and special, also refers to adolescent’s belief that they are invulnerable and invincible