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261. Which of the following is FALSE regarding adolescents? a. Adolescents have an increased potential for abstract thought and to reason about future possibilities. b. Adolescents lack life experience. c. The adolescent brain has completed the circuitry that helps people monitor errors, regulate emotions, and interpret a first impression in order to think rationally. d. Many professions, including education and medicine, have special certifications or training programs for people who work primarily with adolescents. 262. Most teenagers love to point out what other people don’t know, blame them for failings, and initiate arguments occasionally because a. they have not developed a conventional level of moral reasoning. b. they are lacking the ability to think abstractly. c. they are able to imagine possibilities and think about how things might have been different. d. of all of these reasons. 263. Teenagers’ ability to think about things that are not physically present a. allows them to empathize with the victims of war and natural disasters. b. leads them to become interested in service activities and citizenship. c. leads them to become frustrated with the inability of adults to build a better world. d. leads to all of these consequences. 264. Wendy, a thirteen-year-old girl, wants her mother to drive her to a friend’s house on a day that the roads are impassable due to heavy snow. When her mother points out the danger, Wendy wails that “It’s not fair! When I grow up and have a daughter, and she wants to go to her friend’s house, I won’t refuse. I’ll be a good mother. I’ll at least try to drive to the friend’s house.” This ludicrous exchange occurred because teenagers, like Wendy, a. can imagine a world that is free from the boredom of a snow day. b. believe that they can do better than their parents and teachers in the future and are frustrated by the inability of adults to build a better world. c. are lacking the experience to appreciate the practical constrains that produce hardships in life, like the impassable road. d. exhibit all of these characteristics. 265. Which of the following is/are good tips for working with adolescents? a. Don’t allow verbal comments or behavior that is hurtful to others or their property. b. Let teenagers know that is not acceptable to publicly embarrass people by “one-upping” them. c. Give them examples of how people can make suggestions without being hurtful. d. All of these are good suggestions for working with adolescents. Short Answer Questions 266. Name the “master gland” in the body and the brain part that monitors and regulates the body’s hormones by sending messages to this “master gland.” 267. Name the three parts of the HPA axis. 268. Define and give an example of a secular trend. 269. In the 1997 landmark study on precocious puberty, the researchers found that although the girls were experiencing breast development before age eight, their average age of menarche was similar to earlier sample. What does this finding suggest? 270. Among girls, the individual levels of which hormone predict differences in masturbation and sexual interest, including thinking about and planning to have sex?