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

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