Question 1

About _____ percent of individuals with bulimia nervosa eventually recover from their disorders.

Accepted Answer

A) 25 
B) 40 
C) 90 
D) 70

Question 2

Maggie is 14 years old and has not yet matured physically.According to recent research,which of the following will be most likely to occur by the time Maggie reaches tenth grade?

Accepted Answer

A) She will be more satisfied with her figure than early-maturing girls. 
B) She will be less satisfied with her figure than early-maturing girls. 
C) She will be more likely to have an eating disorder than early-maturing girls. 
D) She will be more likely to drop out of school than early-maturing girls.

Question 3

Jordan is very afraid of gaining weight but she cannot control her eating habits.She has been making up for her eating binges by vomiting immediately after a meal or by purging with laxatives.This pattern of behavior has been occurring thrice a week for the past four months.Jordan is most likely suffering from:

Accepted Answer

A) anorexia nervosa. 
B) bulimia nervosa. 
C) binge eating disorder. 
D) rumination disorder.

Question 4

In a single act of unprotected sex with an infected partner,a teenage girl has a _____ percent risk of contracting gonorrhea.

Accepted Answer

A) 20 
B) 30 
C) 40 
D) 50

Question 5

Explore the link between hormones and behavior in adolescence.

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

When students make the transition to middle or junior high school,they experience the _____ phenomenon,moving from being the oldest,biggest,and most powerful students in the elementary school to being the youngest,smallest,and least powerful students in the middle or junior high school.

Accepted Answer

A) big-brother 
B) top-dog 
C) domino effect 
D) underdog

Question 7

Bill wants to know how he can prevent drug abuse by his adolescent son.You would suggest that Bill:

Accepted Answer

A) have family dinners most nights of the week. 
B) discourage his son from making more friends at school. 
C) engage in lesser parental monitoring and control. 
D) cease to emphasize educational success.

Question 8

Which of the following describes the findings of the U.S.survey conducted by the National Sleep Foundation?

Accepted Answer

A) The majority of the adolescents got less than eight hours of sleep on school nights. 
B) Getting inadequate sleep was linked to suicidal thoughts and attempts in adolescence and early adulthood. 
C) A higher number of adolescents in ninth grade were getting inadequate sleep on school nights than adolescents in twelfth grade. 
D) Adolescents who got inadequate sleep were no more likely to be in a depressed mood than those who got adequate sleep.

Question 9

A national study of U.S.adolescents revealed that physical activity:

Accepted Answer

A) increased until 13 years of age but then declined through 18 years of age. 
B) in childhood and early adolescence would persist through to adulthood. 
C) increased until 13 years of age and then remained stable throughout adulthood. 
D) decreased until 13 years of age and then stabilized to last through 18 years of age.

Question 10

In about _____ percent of motor vehicle fatalities involving adolescents,the driver was found to have a blood alcohol level of .10 percent.

Accepted Answer

A) 10 
B) 30 
C) 50 
D) 80

Question 11

A girl's first menstruation is called _____.

Accepted Answer

A) gonadarche 
B) spermarche 
C) menarche 
D) adrenarche

Question 12

According to a U.S.national survey,by age 20,_____ percent of U.S.youth have engaged in sexual intercourse.

Accepted Answer

A) 77 
B) 62 
C) 90 
D) 52

Question 13

Adolescent use of alcohol has recently shown a(n):

Accepted Answer

A) insignificant change. 
B) sizeable decline. 
C) mild increase. 
D) significant increase.

Question 14

One strategy for reducing adolescent pregnancy is the _____ program that focuses on engaging adolescents in volunteer community service and stimulates discussions that help adolescents appreciate the lessons they learn through volunteerism.

Accepted Answer

A) Health Bridge 
B) Teen Outreach 
C) Girls,Inc 
D) Will Power/Won't Power

Question 15

When Daniel Offer and his colleagues studied the self-images of adolescents in the United States,Australia,Bangladesh,Hungary,Israel,Italy,Japan,Taiwan,Turkey,and West Germany,at least _____ percent of the adolescents displayed a healthy self-image.

Accepted Answer

A) 25 
B) 48 
C) 60 
D) 73

Question 16

In the formal operational stage,adolescents begin to think more as a scientist thinks,devising plans to solve problems and systematically testing solutions.This type of problem solving requires _____.

Accepted Answer

A) trial-and-error reasoning 
B) hypothetical-deductive reasoning 
C) concrete operational reasoning 
D) preconventional reasoning

Question 17

In the last half of the twentieth century and the first several years of the twenty-first century,U.S.high school dropout rates:

Accepted Answer

A) increased. 
B) declined. 
C) remained unchanged. 
D) plateaued.

Question 18

Identify the theorist who suggested that adolescent egocentrism is characterized by "the imaginary audience" and the "personal fable."

Accepted Answer

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Question 19

In the United States,the average age of menarche has _____ since the mid-nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

A) increased marginally 
B) declined significantly 
C) increased significantly 
D) not changed

Question 20

Service learning is often more effective when two conditions are met: (1)giving students some degree of choice in the service activities in which they participate,and (2)_____.

Accepted Answer

A) fixing certain minimum levels of compliance 
B) guiding students in their tasks 
C) providing students opportunities to reflect about their participation 
D) limiting the amount of time spent volunteering

Exam 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence