Lifespan Ch 11 Review
1. Discuss how early or late maturation affects boys and girls.
2. Who is most likely to suffer from an eating disorder, and what characterizes the eating disorder anorexia
nervosa? What characterizes the eating disorder bulimia nervosa?
3. Explain how formal operational thought differs from concrete operational thought.
4. Discuss two aspects of adolescent egocentrism.
5. This theorist suggested that adolescents are in the formal operational stage of cognitive development.
6. A period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that occurs primarily during
adolescence.
7. A girl's first menstruation.
8. Powerful chemical substances secreted by the endocrine glands and carried through the body by the
bloodstream.
9. The testes in males and the ovaries in females.
10. The seat of emotions such as anger.
11. An eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation.
12. An eating disorder in which the individual consistently follows a binge-and-purge pattern.
13. According to cognitive developmental theory, adolescents are in this stage of thinking. This stage is
characterized primarily by abstract thinking and hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
14. The belief that adolescents have that they are somehow "on-stage," with others constantly watching them.
(Note: The answer is NOT adolescent egocentrism.)
15. The belief that adolescents have that they are unique as well as "invincible" and somehow immune to the
natural consequences of their behaviors. (Note: The answer is NOT adolescent egocentrism.)
16. Identify three of the physical changes that take place during puberty with girls and three of the physical
changes that take place with boys.
17. List four sexually transmitted diseases that teens are at risk for contracting if they engage in unprotected sex.
18. List four negative consequences of teen pregnancy.