Describe the secular trend in pubertal timing and its potential consequences.
What will be an ideal response?
Children in industrialized nations grow faster and larger than in past generations. Similarly, age of menarche declined steadily-by about 3 to 4 months per decade-from 1900 to 1970, a period in which nutrition, health care, sanitation, and control of infectious disease improved greatly. Boys, too, have reached puberty earlier in recent decades. This secular trend in pubertal timing lends added support to the role of physical well-being in adolescent growth. A worrisome consequence is that girls who reach sexual maturity at age 10 or 11 will feel pressure to act much older than they are. Early-maturing girls are at risk for unfavorable peer involvements, including sexual activity.
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A. visuospatial sketchpad B. central executive C. episodic buffer D. phonological loop
Are individuals who reason at higher moral levels more likely to act in moral ways?
a. Yes, there seems to be a positive relationship between these variables. b. No, there is no relationship between these variables. c. No, those who reason at stage 5 are likely to act based upon stage 3 and 4 principles. d. Yes for women, but no for men.
Compared to their counterparts in traditional cultures, how religious are adolescents and emerging adults from industrialized societies? Individuals from industrial societies are ____
a. very similar in religiousness b. less religious c. more religious d. about the same until emerging adulthood and then much more religious
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A. T cells B. the pressure C. stressors D. lymphocytes