Discuss masturbation among adolescents.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Masturbation, or sexual self-stimulation, is the most common sexual outlet in adolescence. Surveys indicate that most adolescents masturbate at some time and most educated adolescents and early adults see masturbation as beneficial. Although it has not been shown to be physically harmful, beliefs that masturbation is harmful and guilt about masturbating lessen the incidence of masturbation (Robbins et al., 2011). About three-quarters of adolescent males and half of adolescent females masturbate (Robbins et al., 2011). Males who masturbate do so more often than females who masturbate. It is unclear whether this gender difference reflects a stronger sex drive in males, greater social constraints on females, or both, but young women are more likely than young men to struggle in coming to terms with the contradiction between social stigma and pleasure (Robbins et al., 2011; Hakim, 2015).
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a. a change in frequency. c. a change in frequency and amplitude. b. a change in amplitude. d. none of these.
The reflex that allows newborns to grip so tightly is the
Moro reflex. rooting reflex. Babinski reflex. Palmer grasping reflex.
Which of the following statements is true?
a. Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed by the formation of plaques, tangles, and loss of connections between nerve cells b. Alzheimer's disease involves an acute loss of memory c. only 20% of individuals with mild cognitive impairment develop Alzheimer's disease d. a communicable disease that can be diagnosed with brain imaging devices e. the brain becomes larger in size with progression of Alzheimer's disease