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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
B Focuses heavily on basic skills
C Offers paid employment as a component of the program
D Focuses heavily on job-related instruction
Question #2
A Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
B Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
C Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
D Hilda, who is in a vocational track
Question #3
A These students are nonetheless likely to find adequate employment after leaving school
B A substantial number quietly disengage from school
C Rarely do these students report a history of dissatisfaction with school
D Rarely are other warning signs present
Question #4
A Higher among boys than girls
B Especially low among Hispanic teenagers
C Close to 20 percent and rising
D Particularly high among low SES Caucasian youth
Question #5
A Girls more often than boys
B Late-maturing boys and girls
C Early-maturing boys and girls
D Low- SES minority students
Question #6
A Activated the hippocampus, which plays a vital role in explicit memory
B Activated subcortical areas involved in implicit memory
C Learned more thoroughly than participants working only on the weather task
D Were able to apply their learning to new weather problems
Question #7
A Are less involved in extracurricular activities
B Have parents who value effort
C Are less academically successful
D Share those values
Question #8
A General education
B College preparatory
C Remedial
D Vocational
Question #9
A Compared with other students, dropouts are more likely to have involved parents
B Risk factors in first grade predict dropout nearly as well as risk factors in secondary school
C The dropout rate is higher among African American teenagers than among Hispanic teenagers
D Nearly all dropouts achieve poorly and show high rates of norm-violating acts
Question #10
A Requiring extracurricular involvement
B Offering remedial instruction in small classes
C Putting students in larger classes
D Using standardized testing instead of grades to determine who graduates
Question #11
A Today, fewer U.S. youths finish their high school education than 50 years ago
B Few high school dropouts return to finish there secondary education
C High school dropouts have a much higher employment rate than high school graduates
D Over 90 percents of U.S. Youths complete high school by age 24
Question #12
A Benny goes to the Friday night football game with a group of friends and cheers as loud as anyone else
B Harry believes that he will never have a car accident because he is a better driver than most people
C When riley fails to make the volleyball team. She believes that no one has ever felt as disappointed
D When her fork falls off her tray in the cafeteria, Hannah is certain that everyone is thinking that she is clumsy
Question #13
A Through direct instruction from adults and more expert peers
B Through rote memorization
C Through exposure to many experiences that require them to match theories against evidence
D As the result of an abrupt, stage wise change
Question #14
A Advanced spatial reasoning
B Metacognition
C Verbal ability
D Emotional self-regulation
Question #15
A Math and science
B Social Sciences
C Literature and writing
D Art and music
Question #16
A Is found in children as young as 3
B Appears at puberty
C Occurs gradually from childhood on
D Does appear until adulthood
Question #17
A Formal operational
B Concrete operational
C Sensorimotor
D Proportional
Question #18
A Is much greater among African American than among Caucasian-American youth
B is linked to depression, anxiety, and impulsive behavior
C Is a normal part of adolescence and, therefore is not a cause for concern
D Should not taken lightly because a single heavy does can lead to permanent injury or death
Question #19
Which of the following substances do U.S. adolescents most often experiment with during high school?
A Alcohol
B Marijuana
C Cigarettes
D Cocaine
Question #20
A Have a better chance of gradating high school than children of adult mothers
B Fare better if the teenage parent drops out of high school
C Score higher on intelligence tests than children of adult mothers
D Often become adolescent parents
Question #21
A More often engage in child abuse
B Interact more efficiently with their infants
C Perceive their babies as less difficult
D Know more about child development
Question #22
A Teenage mothers spend more of their parenting years as single parents
B Many teen mothers perceive their babies as less difficult
C Today, about 95 percent of U.S. adolescent mothers graduate from high school
D Very few teen mothers experience pregnancy and birth complications
Question #23
A Bisexuality is a transient state
B Attraction to members of the same sex is limited to teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual
C Most homosexual adolescents are “gender-deviant” in dress and behavior
D About 50 or 60 percent of adolescents who report having engaged in homosexual acts identify as heterosexual
Question #24
A Social influences; genetic factors
B Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
C Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
D Genetic factors; authoritarian child rearing
Question #25
A About 20 percent of sexual active U.S. teenagers do not use contraception consistently
B School sex education classes prevent teenagers from having unprotected sex
C Adolescent contraceptive use has decreased in recent years
D Even teenagers who report talking openly with their parents about sex are unlikely to use birth control
Question #26
A Bulimics are usually excellent students who are responsible and well- adjusted
B Bulimics usually feel depressed and guilty about their abnormal eating habits
C It is usually harder to treat young people with bulimia than those with anorexia
D Bulimics typically deny or minimize the seriousness of their disorder
Question #27
A Half; also afflicted with bulimia nervosa
B Half; gay or bisexual youths who are uncomfortable with a strong, muscular appearance
C Three- quarters; African-American youths who are dissatisfied with their physical characteristics
D A quarter; early-maturing youths who are anxious and prone to depression
Question #28
A Anorexia nervosa is equally common in all SES groups
B Although being anorexia is unhealthy, it is rarely fatal
C Boys account for less than 1 percent of anorexia cases
D About 10 percent of North American and Western European teenagers are affected
Question #29
A School issues; the importance of education
B Important family values; a belief in a higher power
C Moral issues; lying, stealing, and cheating
D Everyday matters; driving,dating partners, and curfews
Question #30
A 14-year-old Grace
B 13-year-old Tya
C 16-year-old Tyler
D 19-year-old Jesse
Question #31
A More stable
B Strongly related to situational changes
C More positive
D Less intense
Question #32
A Display increases in executive function
B Are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression
C Are less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors
D Perform better on cognitive tasks in the morning hours
Question #33
A Have difficulty strong and retrieving long-term memories
B Become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues
C Cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion
D React more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely
Question #34
A Anabolic steroid use
B Sexual maturation
C Excessive exercise
D The onset of puberty
Question #35
A Growth in body size is complete for most girls by age 16 and for boys by age 17 1/2
B In early adolescence, the typical girl is shorter and lighter than the typical boy
C On average, the growth spurt is underway in North America around age 8 for girls and 10 for boys
D The first outward sign of puberty is menarche for girls and spermarche for boys
Question #36
A Are unimpressive
B Are underway at birth
C Occur suddenly
D Are underway by age 8 or 9
Question #37
A Much longer than
B The same length as
C Briefer but less intense than
D Briefer but more intense than
Question #38
A Biologically determined
B Influenced by biological, psychological, and social forces
C Socially determined
D Environmentally determined
Question #39
A Margaret Mead
B Anna Freud
C Jean Piaget
D G. Stanley Hall
Question #40
A Pleasant time of life in which the social environment is responsible for the range of teenage experience
B Time in which teenagers grasp scientific and mathematical principles and grapple with social and political issues
C Period so turbulent that is resembles the era in which humans evolved from savages into civilized beings
D Biologically based “developmental disturbance”
