Chapters 1-3: Biological, Cognitive, and Social Transitions

Question 1

Endocrine system

Chapter 1 (Biologial Transitions)

Answer 1

The system of the body that produces, circulates, and regulates hormones.

Question 2

What are Hormones?

Biological transitions

Answer 2

Highly specialized substances secreted by one or more endocrine glands.

Question 3

What feedback loop is important for the onset of puberty?

Biological transitions

Answer 3

The HPG axis

Question 4

What does the HPG axis do?

Biololigical transitions

Answer 4

Helps with maintaining certain levels of androgens and estrogens.

Question 5

What sex hormones are part of the puberty process?

Biological transitions

Answer 5

Andorgens and estrogens

Question 6

The onset of puberty id due to an increase in a brain chemical called________?

Biological transitions

Answer 6

Kisspeptin

Question 7

Which factors impact the production of kisspeptin in the body?

Answer 7

Levels of leptin and melatonin

Question 8

What is leptin?

Biological transitions

Answer 8

A protein produced by fat cells.

Question 9

What is melatonin?

Biological transitions

Answer 9

A hormone secreted by the brain

Question 10

What is the menarche?

Biological transition

Answer 10

The time of the first menstruation

Question 11

Chronic illness is associated with delayed puberty. True or false?

Biological transitons

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Excessive exercise during childhood and adolescence is associated with delayed puberty. True or false

Biological transitions

Answer 12

True!

Question 13

What are the two most imprtant environmental influences on pubertal maturation?

Answer 13

Nutrition and health

Question 14

There is an impact of puberty on self-esteem. True or false?

Answer 14

True

This varies across genders and ethnic groups.

Question 15

What is personal fable?

Cognitive transitions

Answer 15

An adolescent’s belief that he or she is unique and therefore not subject to the rules that govern other people’s behavior

An adolescent may think no one has gone what they’re going through.

Question 16

What is metacognition?

Cognitive transitions

Answer 16

The process of thinking of thinking itself

why did I just have that thought? “Is it normal to have these thoughts?”

Question 17

Early-maturing girls are at a heighteded risk for psychological disorders. True or false?

Biological transitions

Answer 17

True. Early maturing girls may be at a risk for developing depression and social anxiety.

Question 18

Bulimia

Biological transitions

Answer 18

A eating disorder found primarily among young women, characterized by a pattern of binge eating and extreme weight-loss measures, including self-induced vomiting.

Question 19

What is anorexia nervosa?

Biological transitions

Answer 19

An eating disorder found chiefly among young women, characterized by dramatic and severe self-induced weight loss.

Question 20

What is selective attention?

Cognitive transitions

Answer 20

The process by which we focus on one stimulus while tuning out the other.

Question 21

What is divided attention?

Answer 21

The process of paying attention to two or more stimuli at the same time.

Question 22

Social redefinition

Social transition

Answer 22

The process through which an individual’s position or status is redefined by society.

Question 23

The transition from a child to an adult is more continuous in a traditional society. True or false?

Social transition

Answer 23

True!

Question 24

Deductive thinking

Cognitive transition

Answer 24

A type of logical reasoning in which one draws logically necessary conclusions from a general set of premises, or givens.

Question 25

What is collective efficacy?

Social transition

Answer 25

A community’s social capital, derived from its members’ common values and goals.