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A survey conducted in 1895 found that __________________ percent of Boston high school girls had no knowledge of menarche before it occurred.
a. 10
b. 25
c. 60
d. 75
c. 60
According o your text, traditional male puberty rituals, such as
scarring and bloodletting, operate as a metaphor for
a. demonstrating one's readiness for the challenges of adult life
b. the pain of childbirth experienced by the boy's mother
c. athletic competitions
d. childhood play
a. demonstrating one's readiness for the challenges of adult life
You are a secondary school teacher developing a health promotion program. According to information you gathered from
reading this text, your program should
a. emphasize prevention by promoting strategies for reducing risk behaviors
b. focus primarily on strategies for dealing with health problems as they arise
c. be cancelled and offered only to adult students
d. focus only on boys because they have greater risks during adolescence
a. emphasize prevention by promoting strategies for reducing risk behaviors
The
decline in frequency of puberty rituals in traditional cultures is most likely associated with
a. globalization
b. poverty
c. rising age of menarche
d. racism
a. globalization
According to the text, why should you be skeptical when you read studies about parents and adolescents in biological families where the behavior of parents is claimed to be the cause of the characteristics of adolescents?
a.
behavior may be caused by biology and not environment
b. behavior may be caused by environment and not biology
c. because the divorce rate is so high in the U.S., no conclusive findings could be drawn
d. there are few studies which investigate the differential treatment of mothers and fathers
a. behavior may be caused by biology and not environment
According to genotype environment effects, we create
our own environments based on our
a. parents' skills
b. family type
c. genetic makeup
d. social context
c. genetic makeup
Which of the following characterizes parent-adolescent relationships in nearly all cultures that have been studied?
a. adolescents of both sexes tend to be closer to their mothers than to their fathers
b. communication styles shift toward consoling through touch
c.
adolescent females tend to be closer to their fathers
d. adolescents of both sexes tend to pull away from both parents
a. adolescents of both sexes tend to be closer to their mothers than to their fathers
One of the problems associated with the body of research on puberty today is that
a. food additives have drastically changed the rate of development in recent years
b. it is mainly focused on White
adolescents in Western countries
c. it has not been verified by research studies in North America
d. it is too detailed to understand in a general way
b. it is mainly focused on White adolescents in Western countries
Which of the following is a valid criticism of the notion of distancing during adolescence?
a. distancing may have an evolutionary basis
b. parent-adolescence conflict increases in
adolescence
c. distancing does not occur equally in all cultures
d. some adolescents really love their parents
c. distancing does not occur equally in all cultures
Menarche refer to
a. a female's first menstrual period
b. a female's first ovulation
c. reproductive maturity in male and females
d. a male's fertility
a. a female's first menstrual period
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