FAD 3220 COMPREHENSIVE UPDATED EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Early maturation - ✔✔boys: athletes, popular, positive self-concept, more apt to
have school difficulties, act inappropriately
girls: uncomfortable about bodies, experience teasing, popular (not socially ready for
dating), anxiety, unhappiness, depression
✔✔Eating disorders - ✔✔anorexia nervosa- starvation to maintain low weight
bulimia nervosa- binge and purge eating
✔✔Brain development - ✔✔immature prefrontal cortex,
pruning of gray matter and increasing complexity of interconnections,
myelination increases
✔✔sleep - ✔✔adolescents go to sleep later and get up earlier
require 9 hours of sleep to feel well rested
✔✔sleep deprivation - ✔✔lower grades, depression, difficulty controlling moods, greater
risk for auto accidents
✔✔Illegal drugs - ✔✔use because of media, addiction, peer models, adolescent rite of
passage
✔✔addictive drugs - ✔✔produce a biological and psychological dependence in users,
leading to increasingly powerful cravings for them
✔✔Alcohol use and abuse - ✔✔do it to prove prowess (social status), release tensions
and reduce stress, addiction
✔✔Tobacco - ✔✔use because it's an adolescent rite of passage, seen in influential
models, addictive
✔✔Sexually transmitted infections - ✔✔an infection that is spread through sexual
contact
✔✔HPV - ✔✔human papilloma virus, most common
symptoms: genital warts & sometimes cervical cancer
✔✔trichomoniasis - ✔✔infection in vagina or penis caused by a parasite
initially without symptoms --> eventually cause painful discharge
✔✔Chlamydia - ✔✔bacterial infection
, initially few symptoms but later causes burning urination and discharge from penis or
vagina
lead to pelvic inflammation and even to being sterile
can be treated successfully with antibiotics
✔✔gonorrhea and syphilis - ✔✔STIs that have been recognized for the longest time
can be treated effectively
✔✔Piaget approaches and stages - ✔✔moving from concrete operations to formal
operations
✔✔concrete operational stage - ✔✔6-11 years, mastery of logic, development of
rational thinking
✔✔formal operational stage - ✔✔11+ years, development of abstract and hypothetical
reasoning, development of propositional logic- reasoning that uses abstract logic in the
absence of concrete examples
✔✔Information processing - ✔✔increasing ability to handle information
✔✔Metacognitions - ✔✔thinking about thinking; self-consciousness, monitors own
learning process more efficiently and paces own studying
✔✔adolescent egocentrism - ✔✔a state of self-absorption in which the world is viewed
from one's own point of view
o Imaginary audience
o Personal fables - one's experiences are unique
✔✔Imaginary audience - ✔✔an adolescent's belief that his or her own behavior is a
primary focus of others' attention and concerns
✔✔Personal fables - ✔✔the view held by some adolescents that what happens to them
is unique, exceptional, and shared by no one else
✔✔Erikson approaches - ✔✔identity vs identity-confusion stage
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔having independence and a sense of control over one's life
✔✔Self concept - ✔✔a person's identity, or set of beliefs about what one is like as an
individual
✔✔Self-esteem - ✔✔an individual's overall and specific positive and negative self-
evaluation
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Early maturation - ✔✔boys: athletes, popular, positive self-concept, more apt to
have school difficulties, act inappropriately
girls: uncomfortable about bodies, experience teasing, popular (not socially ready for
dating), anxiety, unhappiness, depression
✔✔Eating disorders - ✔✔anorexia nervosa- starvation to maintain low weight
bulimia nervosa- binge and purge eating
✔✔Brain development - ✔✔immature prefrontal cortex,
pruning of gray matter and increasing complexity of interconnections,
myelination increases
✔✔sleep - ✔✔adolescents go to sleep later and get up earlier
require 9 hours of sleep to feel well rested
✔✔sleep deprivation - ✔✔lower grades, depression, difficulty controlling moods, greater
risk for auto accidents
✔✔Illegal drugs - ✔✔use because of media, addiction, peer models, adolescent rite of
passage
✔✔addictive drugs - ✔✔produce a biological and psychological dependence in users,
leading to increasingly powerful cravings for them
✔✔Alcohol use and abuse - ✔✔do it to prove prowess (social status), release tensions
and reduce stress, addiction
✔✔Tobacco - ✔✔use because it's an adolescent rite of passage, seen in influential
models, addictive
✔✔Sexually transmitted infections - ✔✔an infection that is spread through sexual
contact
✔✔HPV - ✔✔human papilloma virus, most common
symptoms: genital warts & sometimes cervical cancer
✔✔trichomoniasis - ✔✔infection in vagina or penis caused by a parasite
initially without symptoms --> eventually cause painful discharge
✔✔Chlamydia - ✔✔bacterial infection
, initially few symptoms but later causes burning urination and discharge from penis or
vagina
lead to pelvic inflammation and even to being sterile
can be treated successfully with antibiotics
✔✔gonorrhea and syphilis - ✔✔STIs that have been recognized for the longest time
can be treated effectively
✔✔Piaget approaches and stages - ✔✔moving from concrete operations to formal
operations
✔✔concrete operational stage - ✔✔6-11 years, mastery of logic, development of
rational thinking
✔✔formal operational stage - ✔✔11+ years, development of abstract and hypothetical
reasoning, development of propositional logic- reasoning that uses abstract logic in the
absence of concrete examples
✔✔Information processing - ✔✔increasing ability to handle information
✔✔Metacognitions - ✔✔thinking about thinking; self-consciousness, monitors own
learning process more efficiently and paces own studying
✔✔adolescent egocentrism - ✔✔a state of self-absorption in which the world is viewed
from one's own point of view
o Imaginary audience
o Personal fables - one's experiences are unique
✔✔Imaginary audience - ✔✔an adolescent's belief that his or her own behavior is a
primary focus of others' attention and concerns
✔✔Personal fables - ✔✔the view held by some adolescents that what happens to them
is unique, exceptional, and shared by no one else
✔✔Erikson approaches - ✔✔identity vs identity-confusion stage
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔having independence and a sense of control over one's life
✔✔Self concept - ✔✔a person's identity, or set of beliefs about what one is like as an
individual
✔✔Self-esteem - ✔✔an individual's overall and specific positive and negative self-
evaluation
