Based on what you know about circadian rhythms and sleep of adolescents, convince your local
school committee why the starting and ending times of the high school in your town should begin
later and end later.
What will be an ideal response?
Suprachiasmatic nucleus is a structure in the brain whose job it is to regulate or circadian
rhythms. Once puberty is initiated, the SCN releases melatonin, a substance that causes us to sleep,
later in the day than younger children or even adults. So teens tend to stay up later at night, struggling
to get up in the morning and to get to school on time. Social factors also play a role with many teens
staying up till early morning texting, watching movies or surfing the internet. Those teens who go to
school after what amounts to a brief nap have lesser concentration, difficulty consolidating
information into memory, and for girls, even menstrual cycles may be disrupted. Adjusting school
times to reflect both the biology and culture ofadolescents may in fact raise their grades.
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a. maturity c. adolescence b. late maturity d. old age
Gates is a highly-paid Chief Operating Officer of a major software firm. How is his position most likely to impact how he raises his son Bill?
a. He will emphasize the importance of obedience to authority. b. He will become significantly more authoritarian. c. He will downplay the importance of education. d. He will attempt to foster initiative and creativity skills.
Which of the following statements is true regarding studies that compared the frequencies of Ainsworth’s three attachment types in the United States to frequencies in Japan and Germany?
a. ?The German sample had about the same number of securely attached infants as in the United States. b. ?The German sample had many more infants with avoidant attachment than in the United States. c. ?The Japanese sample had zero cases of anxious-ambivalent attachment. d. ?The Japanese sample had higher proportions of avoidant attachments.
Which of the following involves any process in which information is imparted by example and allows the observer to skip the tedious trial-and-error stage of learning?
a. classical learning b. modeling c. operant conditioning d. response chaining