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The abstract quality of thinking during the ________ stage is evident in an adolescent's verbal problem-solving ability.

A) passive operational
B) concrete operational
C) formal operational
D) conventional reasoning

E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Which researcher, in 2003, suggested that adolescents have difficulty controlling their emotions because their prefrontal cortex has not yet fully developed?

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________ are powerful chemical substances secreted by the endocrine glands and carried through the body by the bloodstream.

In the Berkeley Longitudinal Study some years ago, early-maturing boys perceived themselves ________ than did their late-maturing counterparts. When the late-maturing boys were in their thirties, however, they had developed a ________ than the early-maturing boys had.

A high school principal sends a letter to parents stating that she is instituting a service-learning component and all students are required to participate. What is service learning? When is it most effective, and why would schools want to use them?

Gina, a 15-year-old, needs to assess a risky situation to quickly get the gist of what is happening and glean that the situation is a dangerous context. She is unlikely to benefit from engaging in reflective, detailed, higher-level cognitive analysis about a decision, especially as it is a high-risk, real-world context where she would get bogged down in trivial detail. This kind of decision making is explained by the

Which of the following is a concern related to U.S. high school education?

Discuss some of the risk factors in adolescent sexual behavior.

In which of the following groups is death through homicide especially common in adolescence?

Martha is suffering from bulimia nervosa, whereas Jane has been diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. The difference between them is that Martha

Fourteen-year-old Kent recently received his blood test results. The test results indicate an eighteenfold increase in testosterone levels and a twofold increase in estradiol levels over the past few years. It appears that Kent

In contrast to Piaget's views, the development of formal operational thinking

Identify the theorist who along with her colleagues conducted extensive research on adolescent sleep patterns and found that when given the opportunity, adolescents will sleep an average of 9 hours and 25 minutes a night.

Which of the following statements is true of the timing of adolescent sexual behavior in the United States?

Adolescent use of alcohol has recently shown a(n)

The peak rate of pubertal change occurs at ________ years for girls and ________ years for boys.

Identify the theorist who suggested that, in the later years of childhood and continuing in adolescence, individuals approach cognitive levels that may or may not be achieved, in contrast to the largely universal cognitive levels that young children attain.

Fifteen-year-old Juanita wants to skip school because she is having a bad hair day and is convinced that everybody will notice and think badly of her. Which aspect of adolescent egocentrism is Juanita experiencing?