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