What are early-maturing boys and girls at risk for?

What will be an ideal response?


Around the world, early-maturing boys and girls show higher rates of risky activity, including smoking, abusing alcohol and substances, and displaying aggressive behavior than do same-age peers. Although all early-maturing adolescents tend to experience more problems, early-maturing girls are at higher risk for early sexual activity, and alcohol and substance use and abuse than boys.

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Psychology

In a(n) ______, all the subjects provide more than one score, with one mean score per ______.

A. matched designs, within-subjects design B. treatment condition, within-groups design C. within-groups design, within-subjects design D. within-subjects design, treatment condition

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Which theory supports the following scenario: You see a tiger, then scream as you experience the fear?

a. Cognitive-Appraisal c. Cannon-Bard b. Common-Sense d. James-Lange

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If Darren's brain is like that of most people, then language will be handled by his __________

a) corpus callosum. b) occipital lobe. c) right hemisphere. d) left hemisphere.

Psychology