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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Later relationship stability
B High academic achievement
C Delinquency and drug use
D Depression
Question #2
A Affection
B Peer status
C Compatibly
D Companionship
Question #3
A Contribute to a rise in depression
B Often interfere with identity development
C Are tightly structured and exclusive
D Help young people deal with stress
Question #4
A Social networking
B Instant messaging
C Cell calling
D Cell-phone texting
Question #5
A Intimacy
B Shared interests and activities
C Self-disclosure
D Shared attitudes and values
Question #6
A More important to the teen, but more strained
B More intense in positive feelings
C More intense in negative feelings
D Less intense in both positive and negative feelings
Question #7
A Genes can induce depression by affecting the balance of neurotransmitters in the brain
B Biological changes associated with puberty explain why girls are more prone to depression than boys
C Heredity plays only a minor role in depression
D Late-maturing girls are especially prone to depressions
Question #8
A Three times
B Just
C Twice
D Not
Question #9
A Depression
B Anxiety
C An identity crisis
D A citation C deficiency
Question #10
A Parents and teachers must be trained to pick up on the signals that a troubled teenager sends
B Parents should not be concerned about teenagers’ commenting, “I wish i were dead,” because adolescents are overly dramatic
C Gun-control legislation that restricts the availability of firearms to adolescents has little impact on suicide rates
D It is nearly impossible to prevent adolescent suicide, as teenagers rarely exhibit warning signs around adults
Question #11
A Suicidal adolescents are likely to have experienced multiple stressful life events
B Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youths are at lower risk for suicide
C Few suicidal adolescents have a family history of emotional problems
D Highly intelligence teens rarely commit suicide
Question #12
A Teenagers tend to commit crimes in high SES neighborhoods where parents are more likely to be absent after school and in early evening
B SES and ethnicity are strongly related to teenagers’ self reports of antisocial acts
C Girls account for about one in three adolescent arrests for violence
D Families of delinquent youths tend to be low in warmth, high in conflict and characterized by harsh, inconsistent discipline and low monitoring
Question #13
A Doug, who first showed signs of physical aggression at age 3
B Shonna, who was first arrested at age 15 when she fell in with the wrong crowd
C David, who first displayed antisocial behavior around puberty
D Lana who was arrested three times in high school but it is now doing well in college
Question #14
A Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement
B Are less likely to monitor their teenagers daily activities
C More readily achieve a mature, harmonious relationship with their teenagers
D Have an easier time adapting to their teenagers’ push for autonomy
Question #15
A Have an easier time adapting to their teenagers’ push for autonomy
B Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement
C More readily achieve a mature, harmonious relationship with their teenagers
D Are less likely to monitor their teenagers’ daily activities
Question #16
A Masculine; boys
B Feminine; girls
C Androgynous; boys
D Androgynous; girls
Question #17
A Gilligan’s theory provides a more accurate account of moral reasoning than Kohlberg’s theory
B Kohlberg’s stage sequence adequately accounts for morality in everyday life
C Everyday moral judgements are efforts to arrive at just solutions
D Everyday moral judgements are practical tools that people use to achieve their goals
Question #18
A Is more involved in community service activities aimed at helping the less fortunate
B Uses more alcohol, but does not use drugs
C Engages in less misconduct, but is less academically responsible
D Is less advanced in moral reasoning
Question #19
A Church attendance becomes a major source of parent-child conflict
B Formal religious involvement tends to increase
C Most young people reject the idea of a “higher being”
D Formal religious involvement tends to decline
Question #20
A A permissive child-rearing style
B A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style
C An authoritarian
D Inductive discipline
Question #21
A Weak
B Strong
C Very strong
D Modest
Question #22
A Level of
B Private conscience
C Other-directed
D Justice
Question #23
A Peers of the same race
B Peers of the same ethnicity
C Like minded peers
D Peers who present differing viewpoints
Question #24
A Thom will say that the exclusion is always unfair
B Timmy will say that the exclusion is acceptable under certain circumstances
C Thom will say that the exclusion is acceptable under certain circumstances
D Timmy will say that the exclusion is always acceptable
Question #25
A Most have used invalid measures
B Most do not support her contention
C Measuring an “ethic’ of care” is too difficult to be reliable
D The results are too inconclusive to reach consensus
Question #26
A 3
B 6
C 5
D 4
Question #27
A Universal ethnical
B Post-conventional
C Pre-conventional
D Conventional
Question #28
A Presenting children and adults with moral dilemmas, and asking them what the main actor should do and why
B Interviewing parents about how their children would behave under a variety of circumstances
C Using puppets to act our misbehavior and then asking children to explain why the puppet was wrong
D Observing his own children in situations where they were tempted to something they knew was wrong
Question #29
A Identity diffusion
B Acculturative stress
C Ethnic identity
D Bicultural identity
Question #30
A Foreclosure
B Moratorium
C Diffusion
D Achievement
Question #31
A Diffused
B Foreclosed
C Achieved
D Delayed
Question #32
A Achievement
B Foreclosure
C Diffusion
D Moratorium
Question #33
A Moratorium
B Foreclosure
C Diffusion
D Achievement
Question #34
A Permissive
B Authoritative
C Uninvolved
D Authoritarian
Question #35
A Fluctuates a great deal
B Rises
C Declines
D Declines
Question #36
A I am not all that smart. I try really hard, but i can never seem to remember all of the details for the test
B I am good athlete, I play three sports: soccer, tennis, and wrestling. It is hard to get my homework done
C I’m talkative around friends, who really listen to me, but at home, i clam up because no one really hears me
D I am usually pretty honest, but sometimes I cheat on my homework
Question #37
A An identity crisis and a resolution
B Forming an ideal self
C Experimentation and error
D Exploration followed by commitment
Question #38
A Role confusion
B Inferiority
C Isolation
D Mistrust
Question #39
A Adopting his parents’ values as his own
B Constructing his identity
C Building his self esteem
D Considering a moral dilemma
Question #40
A Identity
B Autonomy
C Trust
D Intimacy