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Fresh Grad Lands Job as Real Estate Agent With Help from Professional Writers

People go to websites to get the information they desperately need.  They could be looking for an answer to a nagging question.  They might be looking for help in completing an important task.  For recent graduates, they might be looking for ways on how to prepare a comprehensive resume that can capture the attention of the hiring manager

Manush is a recent graduate from a prestigious university in California who is looking for a job opportunity as a real estate agent.  While he already has samples provided by his friends, he still feels something lacking in his resume.  Specifically, the he believes that his professional objective statement lacks focus and clarity. 

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“Kudos to the team for a job well done.  I am sincerely appreciative of the time and effort you gave on my resume.  You did not only help me land the job I had always been dreaming of but you also made me realize how important adding those specific keywords to my resume!  Cheers!

Manush’s story shows the importance of using powerful keywords to his resume in landing the job he wanted.

Chapter 10 Quiz

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Question #1
A  Mediation 
B  Joint physical custody
C  Authoritarian parenting
D  Coparenting 
Question #2
A  Divorce mediation
B  Joint custody 
C  Coregulation
D  Mediated custody
Question #3
A  Liem, his 3 year old son
B  Kate, his 9 year old daughter
C  Max, his 11 year old son
D  Harry, his 6 year old son
Question #4
A  More adjustment problems 
B  Better relationships with their parents
C  Fewer behavior problems
D  Higher self-esteem
Question #5
A  11 to 13 year old, fears a bully
B  5 to 7 year old is afraid of academic failure
C  8 to 10 year old has permissive parents 
D  8 to 10 year old, is afraid to be separated from his mother
Question #6
A  School or neighborhood bullies
B  Exposure to negative information in media 
C  Exposure to fairy tales
D  Direct exposure to frightening events
Question #7
A  Is less common among children whose parents use an authoritative child rearing style
B  Enables children to use internal and external resources to cope with adversity
C  Is less common among children with a mastery-oriented approach to new situations
D  Is a preexisting attribute weather than a capacity that develops over time
Question #8
A  Often just one or a few protective factors account for a child being “stress-resilient”
B  There is a strong relationship between stressful experiences and psychological disturbance 
C  Traits and experiences that protect children against psychological disturbance are unknown
Question #9
A  Frequently displayed precocoious sexual knowledge and behavior 
B  Trend to avoid sexual activity in adolescence 
C  Adjust better when allowed to face their abuser in court 
D  Usually tell a parent or teacher what has happened
Question #10
A  Impulsive
B  Active
C   Inhibited
D  Easy
Question #11
A  Ghosts and goblins
B  The dark 
C  Thunder and lightning
D  Peer rejection
Question #13
A  Are more likely to engage in antisocial behavior
B  Have fewer emotional difficulties
C  Are less likely to bend to peer pressure
D  Show greater academic achievement 
Question #14
A  Higher intelligence 
B  Lower achievement 
C  More immature social behavior 
D  More gender-stereotyped beliefs
Question #15
A  Fathers engage in as much caregiving as mothers
B  Each parents tends to devote more time to children of his or her own sex
C  Fathers are more knowledgeable than mothers about children’s everyday activities 
D  Fathers spend more time than meters with school-age children 
Question #16
A   Is a permissive child-rearing style where the child takes responsibly or making rules
B   involves from parental control and greater child dependence
C  Involves general parental oversight while letting the child make moment by moment decisions 
D  Is an agreement between parents and other caregivers to be consistent with rules 
Question #17
A  Coregulation
B  Permissive parenting
C  Transitive inference 
D  Distributive justice
Question #18
A  Permissive
B  Authoritarian 
C  Uninvolved 
D  Authoritative 
Question #19
A  physical education; feminine
B  Language arts; masculine
C  Music; masculine
D  Reading; feminine
Question #20
A  Public speaking
B  Public speaking
C  Personal defense 
D  Positive social skills
Question #21
A   The children are more likely to team up and retaliate against the bully
B  The bully often targets the new friend
C  Bullying often comes to an end
D  The new friend is often ostracized by other children 
Question #23
A  Combine academic and social competence
B  Are anxious, unhappy, and low in self-esteem
C  Show high rates of absenteeism and prosocial behavior
D  Include “tough” boys and relationally aggressive boys and girls
Question #24
A  Society of peers
B  Church
C  home
D  Extended family 
Question #25
A  Lisa, who views others traits as changeable
B  Angie, who has very low self esteem
C  Jane, who has overly high self esteem 
D  Helen, who views others traits as fixed
Question #26
A  Reject conventional standards for moral behavior
B  Have internalized rules for good conduct 
C  Pick up morally relevant behaviors,but do not understand the reasons behind them
D  Begin to recognize that the context of behavior is more important than the intent
Question #27
A  Think about thinking 
B  Redefine the situation and appraise it as unchangeable 
C  Opt for distraction when faced with outcomes beyond their control, such as receiving a bad grade
D  Appraise the situation as changeable, identify the difficulty and decide what to do about it 
Question #28
A  Postive and negative emotions cannot be experienced simultaneously 
B  Tone of voice is a more accurate predicator of emotion than facial expressions
C  Negative emotions are more frequent than positive emotions
D  People’s expressions may not reflect their true feelings
Question #29
A  Ignoring responsibilities 
B   Lying and cheating
C  Intentional wrongdoing
D   Depressive symptoms
Question #30
A  Attribution retraining encourages children to believe that success should be attributed to ability, rather than luck or effort
B  Following a failure, children are given repeated feedback that helps them revise their attributions, such as “You can do it if you try harder.”
C  One approach is to encourage low-effort students to focus more on grades and less on mastering a task for individual improvement 
D  Attribution retraining is an alternative to instruction in effective strategies and self-regulation
Question #32
A  Ability
B  The malicious intent of another person
C  Bad luck
D  Insufficient effort
Question #33
A  Use a firm, controlling parenting style
B  Make decisions for their children 
C   Encourage their children to stave for worthwhile goals
D  Use frequent social comparisons 
Question #34
A  Attend schools in high SES neighborhoods, regardless of their own SES
B  Have permissive parents
C  Attend school where their SES and ethnic groups are well-represented
D  Spend longer hours in child care
Question #35
A  Perceived physical appearance correlates more strongly with overall self-worth than any other self-esteem factor
B  From fourth grade on, self esteem drops for the majority of young people
C  Children’s self evaluations become increasingly vague and overlapping with age
D  Throughout middle childhood, girls’ self esteem tends to be higher than boys’
Question #36
A  A large discrepancy between an ideal self and a real self boosts self esteem
B  In middle childhood, self-descriptions rarely include reference to social groups
C  School-age children often avoid making social comparisons when describing themselves
D  As children move into adolescences, self concept is increasingly vested in feedback from close friends
Question #37
A  Form an ideal self that they use to evaluate their real self 
B  experience shame, the negative outcome of middle childhood
C  Develop a strong sense of superiority
D  Seldom look to people beyond the family for information about themselves 
Question #38
A  Compare their own characteristics to those of peers
B  Experience role confusion
C  Describe themselves in unrealistically positive terms
D  reject conventional standards for moral behavior
Question #40
A   Inferiority
B  Role confusion
C   Industry 
D  Shame