Adolescence extend from:

Related Mcqs:

1. Girls who mature_______and boys who mature________seem to experience more subjective distress and emotional difficulties with the transition to adolescence.

   A. early; early
   B. early; late
   C. late; early
   D. late; late

2. According to Erikson, the central crisis of adolescence is _____________?

   A. identity vs confusion
   B. trust vs mistrust
   C. industry vs inferiority
   D. intimacy vs isolation

3. The stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development occurs during adolescence and refers to the ability to reason about abstract concepts and principles and evaluate issues in the broader social environment?

   A. formal-operational
   B. concrete-operational
   C. sensorimotor
   D. preoperational

4. The somatotropin releasing factor secreted from hypothalamus promotes which of the followings when growth ceases after adolescence:

   A. Protein synthesis
   B. Acromegaly
   C. Gigantism
   D. Cretinism

5. Following are the stage of Adolescence:

   A. The adolescent strives to grow up, to the big and yet also to have some of the security that goes with being little
   B. There is something radical about – being an adolescent, yet also something radical conservative
   C. The adolescent, if able to draw upon his resources, has a great capacity for flexibility, et he is also in many ways, a rigid person
   D. All of the above

6. The prenatal period, childhood and adolescence usually are referred to as representing sequential maturation or development towards____maturity:

   A. Mental
   B. Life
   C. Adult
   D. Attitude

7. Healthy environment and training:

   A. Can turn a dull child into an intelligent one
   B. Cannot turn a dull into an intelligent one
   C. Can turn a dull into a gifted one
   D. None of the above

8. Substances capable of causing birth defects are known as:

   A. carcinogens
   B. teratogens
   C. chorionic villi
   D. antigens

9. Five-year-old David watches as you pour water from a short, wide glass into a tall, narrow one. He says there is now more water than before. This response demonstrates that:

   A. David understands the concept of conservation
   B. David does not understand the concept of conversion
   C. David cognitive development is “behind” for his age
   D. both b and c are the case

10. During the course of successful prenatal development, a human organism begins as a(n):

    A. zygote and finally develops into a fetus
    B. zygote and finally develops into an embryo
    C. fetus and finally develops into an embryo
    D. embryo and finally develops into a fetus