TRU PSYCH 3451 Exam Study Guide with Complete Solution
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TRU PSYCH 3451 Exam Study Guide
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The adolescent period has lengthened in the past 100 years because... -
Answer️️ -physical maturation occurs earlier
individuals delay going to work/marriage
puberty has 3 main physical manifestations - Answer️️ -1. rapid
acceler...
TRU PSYCH 3451 Exam Study Guide
with Complete Solutions
The adolescent period has lengthened in the past 100 years because... -
Answer✔️✔️-physical maturation occurs earlier
individuals delay going to work/marriage
puberty has 3 main physical manifestations - Answer✔️✔️-1. rapid
acceleration in growth
2. development of primary sex characteristics
3. development of secondary sex characteristics
Are new hormones produced at puberty? - Answer✔️✔️-No, some levels just
increase or decrease
Hormones that are important in puberty, carry their instructions by
activating brain cells called... - Answer✔️✔️-gonadotroping-releasing
hormone (GnRH) neurons
early sexual feelings prior to puberty may be stimulated by the maturation
of the adrenal glands - Answer✔️✔️-adenarche
onset of puberty is triggered by an increase in the brain chemical called... -
Answer✔️✔️-kisspeptin
what chemical stimulates the production of kisspeptin - Answer✔️✔️-leptin
what chemical surpresses the production of kisspeptin - Answer✔️✔️-
melatonin
marker of closing puberty is... - Answer✔️✔️-epiphysis
the development of secondary sex characteristics is typically divided into 5
stages, called the... - Answer✔️✔️-tanner stages
the 2 most important environmental influences on pubertal maturation
are... - Answer✔️✔️-nutrition and health
secular trend - Answer✔️✔️-over past two centuries, for individuals to be
larger in stature, and to reach puberty earlier, primarily because of
improvements in health and nutrition
Pheromones - Answer✔️✔️-a class of chemicals secreted by animals that
stimulate certain behaviors in other members of the species (the presence of
a stepfather may expose the adolescent girl to pheromones that stimulate
pubertal maturation)
Deductive reasoning - Answer✔️✔️-a type of logical reasoning in which one
draws logically necessary conclusions from a general set of premises, or
givens
Metacognition - Answer✔️✔️-the process of thinking about thinking itself
adolescent egocentrisim 2 parts - Answer✔️✔️-imaginary audience
personal fable
imaginary audience - Answer✔️✔️-adolescents' belief that they are the focus
of everyone else's attention and concern
personal fable - Answer✔️✔️-type of thought common to adolescents in
which young people believe themselves to be unique and protected from
harm
Piagetian perspective; says that cognitive development proceeds through 4
stages - Answer✔️✔️-sensorimotor (birth-2yrs)
preoperational (2-5yrs)
concrete operational (6-early adolescence)
formal operations (early adolescence-adulthood)
cognitive-developmental view - Answer✔️✔️-a perspective on development,
based on the work of Piaget, that takes a qualitative, stage-theory approach
According to Piagetian theorists, what is the chief feature that differentiates
adolescent thinking from childrens - Answer✔️✔️-abstract logical reasoning
Information-processing perspective - Answer✔️✔️-A perspective on
cognition that derives from the study of artificial intelligence and attempts
to explain cognitive development in terms of the growth of specific
components of the thinking process (such as memory).
selective attention - Answer✔️✔️-the focusing of conscious awareness on a
particular stimulus, and tuning out another
divided attention - Answer✔️✔️-paying attention to more than one thing at a
time
working memory - Answer✔️✔️-short-term storage of information being
actively processed
reminiscence bump - Answer✔️✔️-the fact that experiences from
adolescence are generally recalled more than experiences from other stages
of life
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) - Answer✔️✔️-a technique
used to produce images of the brain, often while the subject is performing
some sort of mental task
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) - Answer✔️✔️-a technique used to produce
images of the brain that shows connections among different regions
Electroencephalogram (EEG) - Answer✔️✔️-a technique for measuring
electrical activity at different locations on the scalp
event-related potential (ERP) - Answer✔️✔️-changes in electrical activity in
areas of the brain in response to specific stimuli or events
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