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Susan has yet to experience her first menstruation. According to some research, what percentage of fat does her body require for menstruation to occur and continue?
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17 percent
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Girls experience the growth spurt about
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2 years before boys do.
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At what age do boys generally surpass girls in both height and weight?
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Which of the following statements about the pubertal growth spurt is not true?
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Girls generally end up with longer legs than boys after the growth spurt.
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Michael experiences appearance of minor facial hair, followed by a growth spurt and then an increase in genital size. This order of pubertal development
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Is unusual for the typical male adolescent.
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Which of the following male pubertal characteristics usually develops first?
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Increase in penis and testicle size
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Rana has just begun puberty and notices slight breast development and some pubic hair. She then grows underarm hair and next begins her growth spurt. This order of pubertal development
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While pubertal development usually occurs earlier in African-American girls than white girls, the order is typical of all girls, regardless of race.
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Which statement concerning body image is not true?
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Increases in muscle may relate to girls' body images during puberty.
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Akiko just experienced her first menstruation. According to Brooks-Gunn's research, Akiko is most likely to tell
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Her mother.
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Longitudinal studies comparing early-maturing and late-maturing boys on perceptions of self have found that
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At age 30, late-maturing males had a stronger sense of identity than did early-maturing males.
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Simmons and Blyth found that, in the 10th grade, late-maturing girls were more satisfied than early-maturing girls with their body image. Why might this be?
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They are likely to resemble the American ideal of a tall, thin body.
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Which of the following is not a view proposed by evolutionary developmental psychologists?
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Evolution has given humans the capacity to produce cultures and change environments
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Which of the following statements about identical twins is FALSE?
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If they are more similar to each other on a given trait than fraternal twins are, then this demonstrates that heredity is the cause of that trait.
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Behavior geneticists believe that two siblings in a family may be very different because of
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Nonshared environmental influences.
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