Life Span Development 16th Edition By Santrock -Test Bank

Chapter 11

Test Bank

1. Which of the following is a more accurate vision of adolescence?
2. A. For most individuals, adolescence is a time of evaluation, decision making, commitment, and carving out a place in the world.
3. For most individuals, adolescence is a time of rebellion, crisis, pathology, and deviance.
4. Most adolescents have a brush with juvenile delinquency.
5. Very few adolescents contribute positively to their communities and make a successful transition through adolescence.

2. Which theorist proposed the “storm-and-stress” view that adolescence is a turbulent time charged with conflict and mood swings?
3. Anna Freud
4. Jean Piaget
5. C. Stanley Hall
6. Daniel Offer

3. 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.
4. 25
5. 48
6. 60
7. D. 73

4. For the majority of teens, adolescence is marked by:
5. stress and storm.
6. delinquency.
7. C. a healthy self-image.
8. a low self-esteem.
9. Public attitudes about adolescence:
10. A. emerge from a combination of personal experience and media portrayals.
11. reflect an objective picture of how normal adolescents develop.
12. portray today’s adolescents as less troubled, less self-centered, less assertive, and less adventurous than in the past.
13. paint an unrealistically positive picture of adolescents.

6. Puberty refers to a period of:
7. declining abstract thought and emotional maturation during late adolescence involving neural and synaptic development in the brain.
8. declining gross motor development during late childhood due to the maturation of the temporal and parietal lobes.
9. rapid psychological and emotional maturation that lasts through adolescence and is a product of enhanced cognitive development.

D. rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that occurs primarily during early adolescence.

7. For most people, puberty:
8. is the same as adolescence.
9. B. ends long before adolescence does.
10. occurs in a single, sudden event.
11. has an easily identifiable beginning and ending.

8. Ms. Chang is trying to prepare her health-class students for the onset of puberty. What should she tell the boys that they are likely to experience first?
9. The first ejaculation
10. Voice changes
11. C. Increased penis and testicle size
12. Growth of facial hair
13. Which of the following is typically the last male pubertal characteristic to occur?
14. The first ejaculation
15. Voice changes
16. Increased penis and testicle size
17. D. Growth of facial hair
18. A girl’s first menstruation is called _____.
19. gonadarche
20. spermarche
21. C. menarche
22. adrenarche