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