Question: Does divorce usually result in more or less contact with the noncustodial parent?
Answer: less

Question: What new theory states that traumatic events during adolescence have lifelong effects?
Answer: epistemological trauma theory

Question: Does a parental divorce during childhood or adulthood have a positive or negative effect on a person during early adulthood?
Answer: negative

Question: What are a few examples of social and religious transition ceremonies?
Answer: Confirmation, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, Quinceañeras, sweet sixteens, cotillions, and débutante balls

Question: What are some physical ways that some cultures mark the transition into adulthood?
Answer: tattoos and scarification

Question: Do cultural transitions into adulthood vary, or are they the same?
Answer: vary

Question: Do romantic relationships tend to increase or decrease throughout adolescence?
Answer: increase

Question: How many percent of adolescents have had a romantic relationship lasting one month or longer by age 15?
Answer: 53%

Question: At what average age did American males report their first sexual intercourse took place?
Answer: 17.0

Question: At what average age did American females report their first sexual intercourse took place?
Answer: 17.3

Question: Does the typical duration of relationships increase or decrease throughout the teenage years?
Answer: increases

Question: How is culture defined?
Answer: symbolic and behavioral inheritance received from the past that provides a community framework for what is valued

Question: Does culture affect all, some, or none of the aspects of an individual's life?
Answer: all

Question: What is a challenge researchers face when studying culture and adolescents?
Answer: not to define the culture's role in adolescence in terms of their own cultural beliefs

Question: Should culture be directly connected to a nation or ethnicity?
Answer: not

Question: How do adolescents use online technology?
Answer: experiment with emerging identities and to broaden their peer groups

Question: To what does "channel" refer in terms if adolescent communication?
Answer: form of communication

Question: What is a potential negative effect of using newer online channels of communication?
Answer: cyberbullying

Question: What percentage of sexually active teenagers will contract an STI?
Answer: One in four

Question: Girls ages 15 to 19 have higher rates of what STD than any other age group?
Answer: gonorrhea

Question: What ratio of all new HIV cases occur in those under age 21?
Answer: One-quarter

Question: According to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, what percentage of parents want schools to discuss contraception with their children?
Answer: eighty-one percent

Question: What percent of the teenage population is affected by herpes and HPV?
Answer: 15

Question: In what year was the Convention on the Rights of the Child created?
Answer: 1989

Question: What two countries have not legally committed to advancing an anti-discriminaory stance towards young people?
Answer: U.S. and South Sudan

Question: A person below the age of majority may gain adult rights through what process?
Answer: legal emancipation

Question: What is legally different for an individual who has reached the age of majority?
Answer: regarded as adults who are responsible for their actions

Question: In developing countries, is it common for children to attend fewer or greater years of formal schooling?
Answer: fewer

Question: Why, in developting countries, do children often attend fewer years of formal schooling?
Answer: so that, when they reach adolescence, they can begin working

Question: According to family economic and financial education specialists, how do adolescents develop sound money management skills?
Answer: saving and spending money

Question: What word refers to the first ejactulation of a male?
Answer: semenarche

Question: What word refers to the first menstrual period in females?
Answer: menarche

Question: What is the term for a culture that discourages sexual activity in unmarried adolescents?
Answer: Restrictive

Question: What is the term for cultures that perceive sexual behavior among unmarried teens as acceptable or even encouraged?
Answer: permissive

Question: Are males and females expected to express their sexuality in the same ways or are there discrepancies between genders and cultures?
Answer: discrepancies

Question: Which of the Five-Factor Model dimensions does not demonstrate an association with drinking motives?
Answer: Openness

Question: Is alcohol use a positive or negative emotion control mechanism?
Answer: negative

Question: Which motivation for drinking alcohol results in low conscientiousness, lowered inhibition, and greater tendency towards aggression?
Answer: enjoyment

Question: Drinking to cope with negative emotional states correlates strongly with what behavioral qualities?
Answer: high neuroticism and low agreeableness

Question: According to research findings, does Internet use have a positive or negative effect on teen physical health?
Answer: negative

Question: How can the Internet be beneficial for socially anxious teens?
Answer: easier to interact socially online

Question: Why do research findings believe the Internet has a negative effect on teen physical health?
Answer: time spent using the Internet replaces time doing physical activities

Question: Which online activity has been consistently associated with increased liklihood of depression?
Answer: cyberbullying

Question: What is the most commonly abused substance during adolescent years in the U.S.?
Answer: alcohol

Question: The heightened usage of what drug is most likely due at least in some part to the rising popularity of rave culture?
Answer: ecstasy

Question: Aside from alcohol, what is the most commonly indulged drug habit during adolescent years?
Answer: marijuana

Question: From the late 1990s to mid 2000s, was drug use in teens on the rise or decline?
Answer: decline

Question: During what ages do reasons for alcohol consumption between males and females begin to diverge?
Answer: 14–15

Question: Do boys or girls view drinking in a more social light?
Answer: boys

Question: Which gender reports most frequently using alcohol as a coping mechanism?
Answer: girls

Question: Does age bring a greater or smaller desire to drink for pleasure rather than coping?
Answer: greater

Question: From which language does the word "adolescence" originate?
Answer: Latin

Question: What is the Latin meaning of the word "adolescere"?
Answer: to grow up

Question: What is another term for legal adulthood?
Answer: age of majority

Question: Physical growth and cognitive development generally observed in adolescents can extend to what age?
Answer: early twenties

Question: In recent years, has the amount of social networking sites available to the public increased or decreased?
Answer: greatly increased

Question: What percentage of teens say they text every day?
Answer: 68%

Question: What percentage of 12-17 year olds claim to have at least one social networking profile?
Answer: 73%

Question: What percentage of teens report visiting social netorking sites daily?
Answer: 51%

Question: What ratio of teens are "heavy" social media users, using two types of media daily?
Answer: One in four (23%)

Question: Are girls reaching sexual maturation early more or less likely to develop eating disorers?
Answer: more likely

Question: Nearly half of Americam high school girls hope to achieve what goal with their diet?
Answer: lose weight

Question: Are early or late maturing girls more exposed to alcohol and drug abuse?
Answer: early maturing

Question: Do early or late maturing girls have more unwanted pregnancies?
Answer: early maturing

Question: Who performs better in school: sexually experienced or inexperienced teen females?
Answer: inexperienced