Which of the following statements about body growth in adolescence is true?
A) The first outward sign of puberty is menarche for girls and spermarche for boys.
B) On average, the growth spurt is underway in North America around age 8 for girls and age 10 for boys.
C) In early adolescence, the typical girl is shorter and lighter than the typical boy.
D) Growth in body size is complete for most girls by age 16 and for boys by age 17½.
D
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a. Both emphasize our reliance on bottom-up processing. b. Both show that we rely too heavily on a strategy that is typically useful. c. Both show that we tend to emphasize the positive, rather than the negative. d. Both emphasize our inability to use situated learning effectively.
Eysenck believed that the characteristics of personality were related to four types of temperament, melancholic, choleric, phlegmatic, and sanguine, which were first recognized by
a. the Romans. b. the early Greeks. c. the Chinese (Ming Dynasty). d. Nostradamus.
Endogenous opioids have been implicated in a variety of psychopathological conditions, including
A. eating disorders. B. phobias. C. obsessive-compulsive disorder. D. personality disorders.
Most social scientists would consider that Western cultures today are
A) prefigurative. B) cofigurative. C) nonfigurative. D) postfigurative.