Deck 10: Adolescence: Physical, Emotional and Sexual Development in the Context of Biological Puberty

Question 1

Girls averaging a two- year lead on boys in height spurt, is an example of inter- individual ______________

A) hormonal changes
B) growth asynchrony
C) nutritional patterns
D) None of the above

Answer 1

growth asynchrony

Question 2

According to Tanner (1972), for the majority of young persons, the years from 12 to 16 are the most eventful ones of their lives as far as their ______________ and ______________ are concerned.

Answer 2

growth; development

Question 3

According to Kenardy et al. (1998), what percentage of young Australian women of ideal healthy weight (according to their BMI) are satisfied with their current weight?

A) 32%
B) 42%
C) 22%
D) 12%

Answer 3

22%

Question 4

When Goldman and Goldman (1982) examined the sexual knowledge of a group of Melbourne children and adolescents, they found widespread ______________ about many basic sexual concepts among boys and girls aged 15.

Question 5

The nose reaches its mature proportions ______________ than the rest of the face.

Question 6

Stattin and Magnusson (1990) found that early- maturing girls:

A) had their children earlier than typically or late- developing adolescents.
B) displayed poor academic achievement.
C) completed fewer years of schooling.
D) All of the above

Question 7

According to Troth & Peterson (2000), in which of the following areas do sons approach their mothers more than daughters do for sexual education?

A) Discussing sexual transmission of HIV.
B) Discussing contraception.
C) Methods to negotiate for safer sex with a partner.
D) None of the above

Question 8

______________ transmit cultural and religious knowledge, while at the same time testing the individual's aptitude to receive it and hold it sacred.

Question 9

According to Tobin- Richards, Boxer and Petersen (1983) the single most important prerequisite for an adolescent boy to feel attractive seems to be:

A) muscle development.
B) the need to shave.
C) the absence of acne.
D) All of the above are equally important.

Question 10

According to Lightfoot (2012), in 2012 the World Health Organization estimated that ______________ percent of all new infections of the HIV virus around the world occur in individuals between 15 to 23 years of age.

A) 15
B) 50
C) 30
D) 20

Question 11

Steinberg (1988) found that the combined cross- sectional and longitudinal analyses agreed in showing that ______________ produced changes in family relationships, irrespective of how old a child happened to be when the changes began to occur.

Question 12

______________ is defined as binge eating accompanied by vomiting or purging to rid the body of unwanted calories.

Question 13

In traditional cultures the initiation ceremony into adulthood serves which of the following functions?

A) The entire community accords the individual a higher level of social status.
B) To elevate the individual to a position of power.
C) The individual is to be treated as an adult from that point forward.
D) All of the above.

Question 14

A survey by Mission Australia (2007) revealed that body image concerns ranked ______________ in order of all the problems that contemporary adolescents aged 15 to 17 worried about.

A) fourth
B) second
C) third
D) fifth

Question 15

According to Goldman & Goldman (1982), what percentage of 13 year olds rate adolescence as 'the best/happiest age to be'?

A) 35%
B) 55%
C) 45%
D) 25%

Question 16

The term ______________ refers to the first experience of complete sexual intercourse.

Question 17

In her investigation of sexual activity among homeless 16- year- old boys and girls, Rosenthal (2007) found that boys reported an average of ______________ sexual partners in the preceding six months, and girls averaged ______________ partners in the preceding six months.

A) 8; 5
B) 6; 3
C) 19; 13
D) 12; 7

Question 18

According to Tanner (1970), the apex of the height growth spurt occurs at ______________ years for girls and ______________ years for boys.

A) 15; 18
B) 10; 11
C) 12; 14
D) 13; 16

Question 19

Who stated the following? 'Adolescents are in character prone to desire and ready to carry out any desire they may have formed into action. Of bodily desires it is the sexual to which they are most disposed to give way, and in regard to sexual desire they exercise no self- restraint.'

A) Erikson
B) Socrates
C) Freud
D) Aristotle

Question 20

Menarche is significantly later than average in which of the following groups?

A) Girls who are blind.
B) Girls with many brothers and sisters.
C) Girls who are bedridden.
D) None of the above

Question 21

Anorexia nervosa proves fatal in 10 to 20 percent of sufferers.

Question 22

In traditional societies, after the initiation ceremony has been completed the young adult can go back to being viewed as child, but only for brief periods.

Question 23

Average girls gain 30 centimetres in height as a result of their growth spurt.

Question 24

______________ predicts an early onset of sexual experience and, in fact, is a stronger predictor of this than religious belief, ethnicity or coeducational schooling.

Question 25

All cultures view the transition from childhood to adulthood as a slow and complicated struggle between generations accompanied by intense stress, occupying all of the teen years.

Question 26

Teens perceive that ______________ are typically weighed down by worries, obligations and responsibilities.

Question 27

In spite of wide cultural variations in the social meaning of adolescence, the physical changes of puberty are basically the same for everyone.

Question 28

According to Berzonsky (1983), the very experiences that combine to make adolescence pleasant for the early- developing male, such as fitting in with prevailing social stereotypes and earning approval as 'good dates', 'good sports' and 'good- looking', may be the factors that in the long run curtail their development of inner strengths.

Question 29

For most individuals, a mature ethical and political ideology will have emerged by the end of adolescence.

Question 30

According to Ellis (2004), a distant or conflict ridden mother-daughter relationship may retard the biological passage through puberty, while intense emotional intimacy between mothers and adolescent daughters may accelerate it.

Question 31

According to the United Nations (1991) cross- cultural survey of 114 societies, it was the universal practice in 12 of these societies that all young people were initiated into penetrative sexual activity while still in their teens. In 34 of the societies surveyed, the notion of teenagers engaging in sex was unexpected and unusual.

Question 32

The size of the pubertal height spurt is largely ______________ of/on how tall the girl or boy was as a child.

Question 33

Body mass index (BMI) is one of the strongest indicators of the timing of girls' puberty.

Question 34

High levels of substance abuse (and tobacco and alcohol use, as well as use of prescription medication and illicit drugs) are more common among girls whose puberty is extremely early than among those for whom it is on time or delayed.