ReCAPP: Professional Credits: Adolescent Development

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Theories and Approaches:
Adolescent Development

Continuing Education
Self-Study Quiz
for CHES and CFLE Contact Hours

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Self-Study Quiz

According to "Get Organized: A Guide to Preventing Teen Pregnancy," aspects of adolescent development include:
1. Physical, cognitive, emotional, legal, spiritual.
2. Sexual, social, psychological, behavioral.
3. Physical, cognitive, emotional, social, behavioral.
4. None of the above.

Concrete thinking is associated with what stage of adolescent development?
1. Early.
2. Middle.
3. Late.
4. All stages.

In late adolescence, most youth develop:
1. A sense of identity.
2. Sexual changes.
3. Intense concern about body image.
4. All of the above.

"Capacity for realistic risk assessment" develops in which stage?
1. Early.
2. Middle.
3. Late.
4. Young adulthood.

Which of the following is one of the four major questions facing adolescents?
1. What should I wear?
2. Am I normal?
3. Am I in love?
4. Should I have sex?

Erikson's and Freud's psychosocial stages:
1. Differ in that Erikson considers social and cultural components.
2. Share similar concepts of development.
3. Differ in that Erikson believes that an "old" issue is reworked in the context of current tasks.
4. All of the above.

Piaget's "Formal Operational" period of development refers to:
1. Capability of logical thinking.
2. Acquiring skills.
3. Perceptions and abilities.
4. The ability to reason abstractly.

What percentage of females aged 12-18 engage in unhealthy dieting behaviors?
1. 17%.
2. 20%.
3. 23%.
4. 26%.

As adolescents develop socially:
1. Family influence balances with peer influence.
2. Intimate relationships begin to develop.
3. There is more tolerance for individual differences.
4. All of the above.

Risk-taking behavior may signal a problem that is a serious threat to a youth's well being when:
1. It begins early (12 or 13 years old).
2. Behaviors are intermittent.
3. It occurs in a social context with peers engaging in the same activity.
4. All of the above.

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