PSYC 3120 exam 3 questions with
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Egocentrism in adolescents thinking- imaginary - correct answer ✔✔-State of self-
absorption in which the world is viewed from one's own point of view
-Always "onstage"
-Think they are the focus of everybody's attention
-imaginary audience: am adolescents belief that his or her own behavior is a
primary focus of others attentions and concerns
secular trend - correct answer ✔✔a pattern of change occurring over several
generations
primary sex characteristics - correct answer ✔✔characteristics associated with the
development of the organs and structures of the body that directly relate to
reproductions
secondary sex characteristics - correct answer ✔✔the visible signs of sexual
maturity that do not directly involve the sex organs
Egocentrism in adolescents thinking- audience - correct answer ✔✔-Always
"onstage"
-Think they are the focus of everybody's attention
-fictitious observers who pay as much attention to the adolescents behavior as
adolescents do themselves
,Egocentrism in adolescents thinking- personal fables - correct answer ✔✔Think
experiences are unique
-the view held by some adolescents that what happens to them is unique,
exceptional, and shared by no one else
information processing perspective - correct answer ✔✔the model that seeks to
identify the way that individuals take in, use, and store information
Meta-Cognition - correct answer ✔✔the knowledge that people have about their
own thinking processes and their ability to monitor their cognition
Piaget's formal operational stage - correct answer ✔✔the stage at which people
develop the ability to think abstractly
-reach this stage at the start if adolescence (around age 12)
-propositional thought: is reasoning that uses abstract logic in the absence of
concrete examples
-adolescents are not fully adjusted into the formal operational stage until they are
around 15
Factors associated with eating disturbances (risk factors) - correct answer ✔✔-
Girls who reach puberty early
-Girls who are dissatisfied with body image
-Growing up in economically advantaged home
-Cultural concern for weight and thinness
, Factors associated with eating disturbances (treatment) - correct answer ✔✔-
Individuals with anorexia will deny any problem
-Hospitalization is often a first step
-Malnutrition affects brain and cognitive functioning
-Parent-child interactions and expectations
-30% of treated anorexics fully recover
-30% also have bulimia
-Insight into eating habits makes treatment easier
-Support groups
-Nutrition education
anorexia - correct answer ✔✔-Eating disturbance in which individuals (typically
young girls) starve themselves because of a compulsive fear of getting fat
-Extremely distorted body image
-Self-imposed diets
-Exercise
-Affects 1 in every 50 teenage girl in the US
-17 years = mean age of onset
-Malnutrition causes the following:
-Self-imposed diets (loose 25-50% weight)
-Menstrual irregularities
-Shrinking of the heart muscle
-Kidney failure
-5% die from the disorder
verified answers already passed
Egocentrism in adolescents thinking- imaginary - correct answer ✔✔-State of self-
absorption in which the world is viewed from one's own point of view
-Always "onstage"
-Think they are the focus of everybody's attention
-imaginary audience: am adolescents belief that his or her own behavior is a
primary focus of others attentions and concerns
secular trend - correct answer ✔✔a pattern of change occurring over several
generations
primary sex characteristics - correct answer ✔✔characteristics associated with the
development of the organs and structures of the body that directly relate to
reproductions
secondary sex characteristics - correct answer ✔✔the visible signs of sexual
maturity that do not directly involve the sex organs
Egocentrism in adolescents thinking- audience - correct answer ✔✔-Always
"onstage"
-Think they are the focus of everybody's attention
-fictitious observers who pay as much attention to the adolescents behavior as
adolescents do themselves
,Egocentrism in adolescents thinking- personal fables - correct answer ✔✔Think
experiences are unique
-the view held by some adolescents that what happens to them is unique,
exceptional, and shared by no one else
information processing perspective - correct answer ✔✔the model that seeks to
identify the way that individuals take in, use, and store information
Meta-Cognition - correct answer ✔✔the knowledge that people have about their
own thinking processes and their ability to monitor their cognition
Piaget's formal operational stage - correct answer ✔✔the stage at which people
develop the ability to think abstractly
-reach this stage at the start if adolescence (around age 12)
-propositional thought: is reasoning that uses abstract logic in the absence of
concrete examples
-adolescents are not fully adjusted into the formal operational stage until they are
around 15
Factors associated with eating disturbances (risk factors) - correct answer ✔✔-
Girls who reach puberty early
-Girls who are dissatisfied with body image
-Growing up in economically advantaged home
-Cultural concern for weight and thinness
, Factors associated with eating disturbances (treatment) - correct answer ✔✔-
Individuals with anorexia will deny any problem
-Hospitalization is often a first step
-Malnutrition affects brain and cognitive functioning
-Parent-child interactions and expectations
-30% of treated anorexics fully recover
-30% also have bulimia
-Insight into eating habits makes treatment easier
-Support groups
-Nutrition education
anorexia - correct answer ✔✔-Eating disturbance in which individuals (typically
young girls) starve themselves because of a compulsive fear of getting fat
-Extremely distorted body image
-Self-imposed diets
-Exercise
-Affects 1 in every 50 teenage girl in the US
-17 years = mean age of onset
-Malnutrition causes the following:
-Self-imposed diets (loose 25-50% weight)
-Menstrual irregularities
-Shrinking of the heart muscle
-Kidney failure
-5% die from the disorder
