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| Acting out and boundary testing are time-honored ways in which adolescents move toward accepting, rather than rejecting, parental values. |
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| The official end of childhood is usually marked by a single, sudden event, such as a boy's wet dream or a girl's starting menarche. |
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| Although it is often assumed that girls have more negative body images than boys do, recent research shows that boys actually have much lower opinions of their own bodies. |
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| Early-maturing girls are often more easily lured into problem behaviors such as drinking and smoking than are late-maturing girls. |
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| By the end of the teenage years (age 19), virtually every adolescent has had sexual intercourse. |
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| Low SES adolescents are more likely to be sexually active and to be come pregnant. |
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| Although teens in the US are no more sexually active than their counterparts in other industrialized nations, they have a significantly higher pregnancy rate. |
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| Children born to teenage mothers are likely to have lower achievement test scores and more behavioral problems than children of adult mothers. |
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| Even though teenagers who have achieved formal operational thought engage in hypothetical-deductive reasoning, they fail to understand the relation between a hypothesis and a well-chosen test of it, stubbornly clinging to ideas that have already been discounted. |
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| Even though adolescents often progress to being able to think critically and solve problems, the majority of eleventh-graders still do not exhibit thinking and often show biased reasoning. |
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| In general, boys and girls both have high self-esteem in childhood, but as adolescence approaches, girls' self-esteem drops considerably lower than that of boys. |
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| Erikson stated that adolescents enter a psychological moratorium, which means that during adolescence, people are unable to really think about issues of psychological importance. |
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| Recent research confirms Erikson's idea that adolescents experience an abrupt, dramatic shift called an identity crisis. |
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| A family atmosphere that limits individuality and emphasizes connectedness is important in the adolescent's identity development. |
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| Researchers advise that parents should clamp down and demand conformity from their adolescents in order to prevent teens from performing risky behaviors or becoming out of control. |
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| Parent-adolescent conflict is more likely to focus on chores and clothing choices than on major or serious life issues. |
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| Adolescents are often members of formal and heterogeneous groups. |
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| Parent-adolescent relationships are more positive if the teen lives at home while attending college, because it strengthens the attachment bond. |
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| Because of escalating juvenile crime rates, we must try adolescent offenders as adults in order to deter them. |
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| Erikson argued that delinquent behavior is an attempt to establish an identity. |
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| Emerging adulthood is a developmental stage that captures the lengthy transition from adolescence to adulthood. |
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| The markers of adult status tend to be universal. |
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| Most college students experience some level of depression when leaving home and subsequently have pessimistic beliefs about their future health risks |
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| Emerging adults have more than twice the mortality rate of adolescents. |
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| BAD QUESTION!!!! Given Answer: False Real Answer: True |
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| Experts recommend that we engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise on most days of the week. |
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| Some researchers believe that once you develop fat cells, they do not go away. |
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| Nicotine, the active drug in cigarettes, is addictive because it serves as a tranquilizer which allows people to relax and better deal with stress. |
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| Research shows that homosexual people have a very different type of physiological response during sexual arousal than do heterosexual people. |
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| Female rape victims often have sexual problems after the rape such as reduced sexual desire and an inability to reach orgasm. |
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| Working at a full-time job during college is related to being a more mature, responsible student who obtains good grades and graduates on time. |
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| The stability of personality traits appears to be more consistent if we measure people over longer time intervals. |
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| The likelihood that childhood temperament is related to adulthood personality often depends on intervening variables such as a child's peer relationships. |
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| Secure attachments in childhood are often related to the security of one's adult romantic relationships, even 20 years later. |
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| Because of the strong link between childhood attachment quality and attachment in adult relationships, it is virtually impossible for adults to revise or change their attachment styles later in life. |
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| Erikson describes intimacy as finding yourself and losing yourself in another person at the same time. |
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| Adult friendships usually come from the same age group. |
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| Cohabitation is seen as a universal precursor to marriage. |
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| Every marriage has problems. However, the most successful married couples solve their common problems and get them out of the way early in the relationship. |
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| Women and men's communication problems with each other often stem from the fact that women do not like to engage in rapport talk. |
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| Relationships between cohabitating partners tend to be more egalitarian than relationships between married partners. |
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