T / F   1. Adolescents who are early physical developers will be more socially and emotionally mature than late physical developers.

T / F   2. Human beings grow more rapidly during the adolescent growth spurt than at any other time in their lives except infancy.

T / F   3. It is abnormal for an 11-year-old girl to have begun to menstruate.

T / F   4. In general, adolescents who enter puberty at an early age will also go through the events of puberty more rapidly than late developers.

T / F   5. The normal variation in young adolescent physical development means that there may be at least a six-year span between a slowly developing boy and a rapidly developing girl of the same chronological age.

T / F   6. Adolescence is characteristically a stormy period marked by outright rebellion.

T / F   7. The proportion of adolescents who show signs of serious disturbance and inability to function normally is much greater than the percentage of adults who show these signs.

T / F   8. One sign of serious disturbance m young people is the inability to relate to peers and to fit into a peer group.

T / F   9. Peer pressure is a pervasive, all-powerful, negative force, to which adolescents are subject.

T / F   10. One sign of serious disturbance in young adolescents is a preoccupation with conformity to others in their peer group and their desire not to be too different.

T / F   11. Young adolescents look to their parents for affection, acceptance, values and guidance.

T / F   12. Young adolescents do not like, enjoy or seek the company of adults.

T / F   13. Periods of disequilibrium are typical in families, as young teenagers and parents work out mutually acceptable ways to accommodate teens’ new concerns and parents’ continuing sense of responsibility.

T / F   14. When young adolescents request increasing levels of autonomy in areas such as dress, curfew and selection of friends, they are really asking for complete independence from adults.

T / F   15. Young adolescents are not mature enough to make commitments to people, ideas or projects.

T / F   16. The ability to think about possibilities outside one's immediate environment is a new thinking skill that gradually emerges during young adolescence.

T / F   17.  Adolescents who are capable of mature thought about social justice, religion or higher mathematics also ought to be able to easily comprehend the risks involved in sexual intercourse without contraception or in drug experimentation.

T / F   18. Young adolescents’ questioning of formally accepted rules and beliefs is a sign that they are using their new cognitive abilities.

T / F   19. Young adolescents are often very authoritarian because they are not yet able to see the "gray areas" between right and wrong.

T / F   20. With the onset and mastery of abstract thinking (formal operations), young adolescents are able for the first time to relate their present interests and aspirations to vocational, social and cultural roles they will fulfill in the future.

T / F   21. It is normal for young adolescents to appear to be self-centered and preoccupied with themselves sometimes, often to the exclusion of thoughts or concerns about others.

T / F   22. Adolescents usually know and understand the possible consequences of behaviors such as driving or riding in a speeding car, engaging in unprotected sexual intercourse or hitchhiking on a busy highway.

T / F   23. Adolescents are beginning to construct their faith interpersonally.

T / F   24. Parents have little influence on the faith development of adolescents.

T / F   25. Young adolescents reflect critically on their beliefs and values and form their own independent faith perspective.