Check Your Understanding Questions

Check Your Understanding Questions

16 .
Identify and describe two factors that have led to a decline in teen pregnancy rates.
17 .
Identify and describe two benefits of a comprehensive sex education curriculum.
18 .
Identify three cognitive domains that develop rapidly during adolescence.
19 .
Describe the changes in thinking that occur during Piaget's formal operational stage, and cite two real-life examples.
20 .
Briefly describe the role of the brain’s reward processes in adolescent risk-taking behavior.
21 .
Briefly describe the role of reward sensitivity in adolescent risk-taking behavior.