Chapter 5 Module 16: Adolescence and Emerging
Adulthood correctly answered already passed
1. What years does adolescence include? Child to adult.
2. How does adolescence start and end? Starts with physical beginnings of sexual
ma-
turity, and ends with social independence.
3. What is adolescence influenced by? Cultural expectations
4. What can adolescence be a time for? Diminishing parental control, need for
social
acceptance, and often social disconnection.
5. What does puberty follow? Surge of hormones, which may
intensify moods and trigger
bodily changes.
6. What are possible explanations for
why puberty worldwide has been Obesity, stress, and chemical exposure
starting ear- lier?
7. What are early-maturing adolescences at Mental health problems (ditterential
vulnera-
an increased risk for? bility)
8. What do brain cells continue to Their connections
increase until puberty?
9. During adolescence, what does
selective pruning remove? Unused neurons and connections.
10. During adolescence, the frontal
lobes continue to develop, but lag
behind in what system? The limbic system.
11. What do myelin and glial cell growth
en- able?
Better communication with other brain re-
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, Chapter 5 Module 16: Adolescence and Emerging
Adulthood correctly answered already passed
gions; improved judgment, impulse control, and long-term
planning. Impulse control lags reward seeking.
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Adulthood correctly answered already passed
1. What years does adolescence include? Child to adult.
2. How does adolescence start and end? Starts with physical beginnings of sexual
ma-
turity, and ends with social independence.
3. What is adolescence influenced by? Cultural expectations
4. What can adolescence be a time for? Diminishing parental control, need for
social
acceptance, and often social disconnection.
5. What does puberty follow? Surge of hormones, which may
intensify moods and trigger
bodily changes.
6. What are possible explanations for
why puberty worldwide has been Obesity, stress, and chemical exposure
starting ear- lier?
7. What are early-maturing adolescences at Mental health problems (ditterential
vulnera-
an increased risk for? bility)
8. What do brain cells continue to Their connections
increase until puberty?
9. During adolescence, what does
selective pruning remove? Unused neurons and connections.
10. During adolescence, the frontal
lobes continue to develop, but lag
behind in what system? The limbic system.
11. What do myelin and glial cell growth
en- able?
Better communication with other brain re-
1/
9
, Chapter 5 Module 16: Adolescence and Emerging
Adulthood correctly answered already passed
gions; improved judgment, impulse control, and long-term
planning. Impulse control lags reward seeking.
2/
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