Lifespan Development Exam 3 questions
with verified solutions (passed)
Primary Sex Characteristics - correct answer ✔✔The organs necessary for
reproduction.
Example: ovaries, uterus, vagina, testes, penis, scrotum.
Secondary Sex Characteristics - correct answer ✔✔Males: broad shoulders, facial
hair.
Females: hips wider, breasts, body hair, pelvis changes.
Tanner's Assessment - correct answer ✔✔Used to see where adolescents are at
physically.
Spermarche - correct answer ✔✔Males 9-11. First ejaculation.
Menarche - correct answer ✔✔Girls 8-10. First period.
How does puberty affect physical change during adolescence? - correct answer
✔✔Rapid increase in height and weight. Lasts about two years. Common
"gawkiness."
What are possible explanations for the secular trend of puberty occurring earlier?
- correct answer ✔✔-Higher standard of living/better nutrition
-Overweight
,-Home environment
-Biological condition
Positive: better nutrition
Negative: obesity epidemic
What are some psychological effects of this secular trend? - correct answer
✔✔More risky behavior. Mind of a 10-year-old, body of a 15-year-old. Might make
advances. Misperception of age by others.
Why is this secular trend a concern? - correct answer ✔✔-Teenage pregnancy
-Parents don't know how to explain to their children why they are going through
puberty early
-People could make fun of them/make them feel awkward
Precocious Puberty - correct answer ✔✔When a child's body starts changing into
that of an adult too soon (puberty).
Pubilect - correct answer ✔✔Adolescent social dialect. Text speak, "like" and "ya
know." Differentiate who they can use this dialect with and who they cannot.
Language Development - correct answer ✔✔-Abstract thought seen in what they
discuss: love, freedom, justice.
-Logical thinking seen in how they speak: words can have nuanced meaning, use
of irony, puns, metaphors, social perspective taking.
, Imaginary Audience - correct answer ✔✔Self-consciousness. Worry about what
other people think and believe everyone is judging them. Immaturity in
egocentrism.
Personal Fable - correct answer ✔✔Specialness and invulnerability. Believe they
are the first person to experience something.
Immature Aspects of Thought - correct answer ✔✔-Idealism and criticalness
-Argumentativeness
-Apparent hypocrisy (say one thing and do another)
-Imaginary Audience
-Personal Fable
Structural (Information Processing)
How is the brain changing? - correct answer ✔✔Increases in amount of
knowledge in long-term memory and processing capacity. Teens can hold more
info.
Declarative Knowledge (knowing that...) - correct answer ✔✔Acquired factual
knowledge stored in long-term memory.
Example: Knowing that 2+2=4 and that George Washington was the first U.S.
president.
Procedural Knowledge (knowing how to...) - correct answer ✔✔Consists of all the
skills a person has acquired, such as being able to multiply and divide and to drive
a car.
with verified solutions (passed)
Primary Sex Characteristics - correct answer ✔✔The organs necessary for
reproduction.
Example: ovaries, uterus, vagina, testes, penis, scrotum.
Secondary Sex Characteristics - correct answer ✔✔Males: broad shoulders, facial
hair.
Females: hips wider, breasts, body hair, pelvis changes.
Tanner's Assessment - correct answer ✔✔Used to see where adolescents are at
physically.
Spermarche - correct answer ✔✔Males 9-11. First ejaculation.
Menarche - correct answer ✔✔Girls 8-10. First period.
How does puberty affect physical change during adolescence? - correct answer
✔✔Rapid increase in height and weight. Lasts about two years. Common
"gawkiness."
What are possible explanations for the secular trend of puberty occurring earlier?
- correct answer ✔✔-Higher standard of living/better nutrition
-Overweight
,-Home environment
-Biological condition
Positive: better nutrition
Negative: obesity epidemic
What are some psychological effects of this secular trend? - correct answer
✔✔More risky behavior. Mind of a 10-year-old, body of a 15-year-old. Might make
advances. Misperception of age by others.
Why is this secular trend a concern? - correct answer ✔✔-Teenage pregnancy
-Parents don't know how to explain to their children why they are going through
puberty early
-People could make fun of them/make them feel awkward
Precocious Puberty - correct answer ✔✔When a child's body starts changing into
that of an adult too soon (puberty).
Pubilect - correct answer ✔✔Adolescent social dialect. Text speak, "like" and "ya
know." Differentiate who they can use this dialect with and who they cannot.
Language Development - correct answer ✔✔-Abstract thought seen in what they
discuss: love, freedom, justice.
-Logical thinking seen in how they speak: words can have nuanced meaning, use
of irony, puns, metaphors, social perspective taking.
, Imaginary Audience - correct answer ✔✔Self-consciousness. Worry about what
other people think and believe everyone is judging them. Immaturity in
egocentrism.
Personal Fable - correct answer ✔✔Specialness and invulnerability. Believe they
are the first person to experience something.
Immature Aspects of Thought - correct answer ✔✔-Idealism and criticalness
-Argumentativeness
-Apparent hypocrisy (say one thing and do another)
-Imaginary Audience
-Personal Fable
Structural (Information Processing)
How is the brain changing? - correct answer ✔✔Increases in amount of
knowledge in long-term memory and processing capacity. Teens can hold more
info.
Declarative Knowledge (knowing that...) - correct answer ✔✔Acquired factual
knowledge stored in long-term memory.
Example: Knowing that 2+2=4 and that George Washington was the first U.S.
president.
Procedural Knowledge (knowing how to...) - correct answer ✔✔Consists of all the
skills a person has acquired, such as being able to multiply and divide and to drive
a car.
