Life Span Development:
Winter Session of 2021
1. Ciara is a very intelligent and focused young woman. She has excellent grades at school, while working a part-time job on the weekends and participating in varsity sports. Yet, despite knowing the dangers, Ciara was hospitalized last weekend after mixing Vicodin with two drinks of alcohol she consumed at a party. Even though Ciara just learned about the dangers of mixing alcohol and Vicodin, she took the risk to try them both because she did not think that the consequences would be as severe for her. Plus, she saw her friends doing it and they seemed OK. Ciara had to spend 3 days in the hospital due to this mistake. What aspect of adolescent egocentrism explains this mistake Ciara made?
a. Object permanence
b. Imaginary audience
c. Personal fable
d. Hypothetical deductive reasoning
2. True or False. Individuals who engage in sexual intercourse prior to the age of 14 years are more at risk to use drugs and engage in unsafe sexual practices than those who wait to have sexual intercourse until much later in life.
a. True
b. False
3. Eating disorders are a mental health problem particularly common in adolescent girls living in Western cultures. Although Amelia is of average weight, she tends to engage in episodes where she eats large quantities of food and then feels guilty about her calorie intake, leading her to use laxatives and vomit to rid herself of the calories. Which eating disorder below sounds consistent with Amelia’s symptoms?
a. Formal Operational Eating Disorder
b. Anorexia Nervosa
c. Bulimia Nervosa
d. Adolescent Egocentric Eating Disorder
4. True or False. Though females are more likely to attempt suicide in emerging adulthood, males are usually more “successful” in their suicide attempts because they use more lethal methods (e.g., guns).
a. True
b. False
5. Research suggests that schools designed to teach adolescents should help them go beyond merely memorizing facts, and instead help them to think about their places in the world around them. As such, most researchers believe that including in the high school curriculum represents the best way to facilitate social responsibility and abstract thinking.
a. Adolescent egocentrism
b. Service learning
c. Extracurricular activities
d. Mathematical deduction
