Chapter 09 Adolescence Fill-In-The-Blank Questions

Fill-In-The-Blank Questions 159. The years of physical growth and sexual maturation that ends childhood is called ______. 160. The first menstrual period is called ______ and usually occurs between the ages of 9 and 15. 161. The first ejaculation of seminal fluid is called ______. 162. _____ is created by both males and females but is the primary female sex hormone. 163. Sexual development before the age of 8 is called ______. 164. _____ is a hormone that peaks in puberty and stimulates appetite. 165. Although there is an established link between stress and puberty, scientists still debate whether stress _____ puberty. 166. Girls who develop _____ than their friends tend to have lower self-esteem than peers. 167. During the _____, first there is an increase in weight, then an increase in height, and finally an increase in muscles. 168. Breast development and voice change during adolescence are examples of changes called ______ sex characteristics. 169. Today, the most beverage most often consumed by 2- to 18-year-olds in the U.S. is _____. 170. Because of diets containing too little _____ from beverages like milk, many of today's teenagers will develop osteoporosis later in life. Page 26 171. A teen with a negative _____ feels insecure about the way he or she looks which often leads to dieting and poor nutrition. 172. The condition characterized by severe calorie restriction and the fear of being fat is known as ______. 173. The feature characteristic of ______ involves overeating compulsively followed by purging via vomiting and the use of laxatives. 174. The ______ system reaches full maturation before the prefrontal cortex, which makes strong, immediate sensations extremely attractive to teens. 175. Eunice couldn't wait to get on her boyfriend's motorcycle knowing that they would blast 80 miles per hour down the expressway. As a 15 year old, her limbic system was more developed than her ______, so she sought the thrill without thinking of the possible consequences. 176. As a result of the development of the ______ prior to the prefrontal cortex, adolescents are generally ruled more by emotion than logic. 177. Young adolescents think intensely about themselves and what others think about them. David Elkind described this as adolescent ______. 178. Due to egocentrism, young adolescents consider themselves to be unique, special, and more _____ significant than they actually are. 179. An author writes that as a teenager in the camp he took large risks, never considering the consequences of being caught and ignoring the advice of others. His behavior can be explained by the ______ fable of adolescence. 180. Drake, an adolescent, drank six energy drinks in 3 minutes. Even though he started to experience heart palpitations, he believed that he would not suffer any ill effects. His certainty resulted from his ______. Page 27 181. An adolescent girl suffers great discomfort at having to go to math class with wet hair after her swimming class because she feels that all eyes are on her. This girl, like many adolescents, is responding to a(n) ______, which she supposes will judge her appearance harshly. 182. Piaget referred to the stage of cognitive development that involves the ability to think logically about abstract ideas as ______ thought. 183. Eight-year-old Eduardo is learning multiplication of real numbers because he is in the ______ operational stage of cognitive development. 184. Sixteen-year-old Clarissa is learning to multiply unreal numbers because she is in the ______ operational stage of cognitive development. 185. When thinking about possibilities that may or may not reflect reality, an adolescent can use _____ thought. 186. _____ reasoning involves using specific experiences to form a general conclusion. 187. In _____ reasoning, one begins with a general premise and draws logical, specific conclusions from it. 188. The statement “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck” is an example of ______. 189. ______ thought arises from beliefs and assumptions rather than a logical premise. 190. Two modes of information processing advance during adolescence. One mode is analytic thought and the other mode is ______. 191. Luis is in the seventh grade. If he is typical, he attends a(n) ______ school. 192. For many students, academic achievement _____ and behavioral problems increase during middle school. 193. In middle school, some of the most _____ children are often uninvolved in school and antagonistic to adults. 194. The anxiety-producing idea that others are judging one in stereotyped ways is called _____. Page 28 195. Research has indicated that student engagement is _____ in small high schools. 196. Bullying that uses technology is called _____. 197. Most U.S. high school students are required to pass high-stakes _____ in order to graduate. 198. In the United States, some 2,500 _____, which tend to be small institutions, prepare students for specific jobs. 199. 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