According to the Text, in Comparison with Younger Adolescents, Older

question 165

Multiple Choice

According to the text, in comparison with younger adolescents, older adolescents are _____ concerned with their date's physical appearance and ______ concerned with their date's personality characteristics.

• A) more; more
• B) less; more
• C) more; less
• D) less; less

Understand the use and identification of figures of speech in language development.

Grasp the concept of reaction time differences due to age in developmental psychology.

Define and recognize the implications of obesity in middle childhood, as indicated by BMI percentiles.

Describe the information-processing theory in cognitive psychology.

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Definitions:

Internal

Pertaining to or situated on the inside; relating to the inner nature of something or someone.

Pessimism

The tendency to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen; a lack of hope or confidence in the future.

Pessimistic Explanatory

A tendency to interpret and explain negative events as being widespread, permanent, and uncontrollable.

State-Dependent Memory

The effect in which a person's memory recall improves when they are in the same mental state as the time the memory was created.