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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Focuses heavily on basic skills
B Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
C Focuses heavily on job-related instruction
D Offers paid employment as a component of the program
Question #2
A Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
B Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
C Hilda, who is in a vocational track
D Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
Question #3
A Rarely are other warning signs present
B Rarely do these students report a history of dissatisfaction with school
C These students are nonetheless likely to find adequate employment after leaving school
D A substantial number quietly disengage from school
Question #4
A Higher among boys than girls
B Close to 20 percent and rising
C Especially low among Hispanic teenagers
D Particularly high among low SES Caucasian youth
Question #5
A Girls more often than boys
B Low- SES minority students
C Late-maturing boys and girls
D Early-maturing boys and girls
Question #6
A Activated the hippocampus, which plays a vital role in explicit memory
B Were able to apply their learning to new weather problems
C Activated subcortical areas involved in implicit memory
D Learned more thoroughly than participants working only on the weather task
Question #7
A Are less involved in extracurricular activities
B Have parents who value effort
C Share those values
D Are less academically successful
Question #8
A General education
B Remedial
C College preparatory
D Vocational
Question #9
A The dropout rate is higher among African American teenagers than among Hispanic teenagers
B Compared with other students, dropouts are more likely to have involved parents
C Nearly all dropouts achieve poorly and show high rates of norm-violating acts
D Risk factors in first grade predict dropout nearly as well as risk factors in secondary school
Question #10
A Using standardized testing instead of grades to determine who graduates
B Putting students in larger classes
C Offering remedial instruction in small classes
D Requiring extracurricular involvement
Question #11
A Few high school dropouts return to finish there secondary education
B High school dropouts have a much higher employment rate than high school graduates
C Over 90 percents of U.S. Youths complete high school by age 24
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 When her fork falls off her tray in the cafeteria, Hannah is certain that everyone is thinking that she is clumsy
C Benny goes to the Friday night football game with a group of friends and cheers as loud as anyone else
D When riley fails to make the volleyball team. She believes that no one has ever felt as disappointed
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 Metacognition
D Advanced spatial reasoning
Question #15
A Literature and writing
B Social Sciences
C Art and music
D Math and science
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 Concrete operational
C Sensorimotor
D Formal operational
Question #18
A Is much greater among African American than among Caucasian-American youth
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 a normal part of adolescence and, therefore is not a cause for concern
Question #19
Which of the following substances do U.S. adolescents most often experiment with during high school?
A Cigarettes
B Cocaine
C Alcohol
D Marijuana
Question #20
A Fare better if the teenage parent drops out of high school
B Score higher on intelligence tests than children of adult mothers
C Often become adolescent parents
D Have a better chance of gradating high school than children of adult mothers
Question #21
A Know more about child development
B More often engage in child abuse
C Perceive their babies as less difficult
D Interact more efficiently with their infants
Question #22
A Many teen mothers perceive their babies as less difficult
B Very few teen mothers experience pregnancy and birth complications
C Teenage mothers spend more of their parenting years as single parents
D Today, about 95 percent of U.S. adolescent mothers graduate from high school
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 Social influences; genetic factors
B Genetic factors; authoritarian child rearing
C Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
D Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
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 Even teenagers who report talking openly with their parents about sex are unlikely to use birth control
D Adolescent contraceptive use has decreased in recent years
Question #26
A It is usually harder to treat young people with bulimia than those with anorexia
B Bulimics usually feel depressed and guilty about their abnormal eating habits
C Bulimics typically deny or minimize the seriousness of their disorder
D Bulimics are usually excellent students who are responsible and well- adjusted
Question #27
A A quarter; early-maturing youths who are anxious and prone to depression
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 Half; also afflicted with bulimia nervosa
Question #28
A About 10 percent of North American and Western European teenagers are affected
B Anorexia nervosa is equally common in all SES groups
C Boys account for less than 1 percent of anorexia cases
D Although being anorexia is unhealthy, it is rarely fatal
Question #29
A Important family values; a belief in a higher power
B School issues; the importance of education
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 19-year-old Jesse
D 16-year-old Tyler
Question #31
A More positive
B Less intense
C More stable
D Strongly related to situational changes
Question #32
A Display increases in executive function
B Are less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors
C Perform better on cognitive tasks in the morning hours
D Are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression
Question #33
A Become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues
B React more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely
C Have difficulty strong and retrieving long-term memories
D Cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion
Question #34
A Anabolic steroid use
B Sexual maturation
C The onset of puberty
D Excessive exercise
Question #35
A In early adolescence, the typical girl is shorter and lighter than the typical boy
B The first outward sign of puberty is menarche for girls and spermarche for boys
C On average, the growth spurt is underway in North America around age 8 for girls and 10 for boys
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 Are underway at birth
C Are unimpressive
D Occur suddenly
Question #37
A Briefer but less intense than
B The same length as
C Much longer than
D Briefer but more intense than
Question #38
A Influenced by biological, psychological, and social forces
B Biologically determined
C Environmentally determined
D Socially determined
Question #39
A Margaret Mead
B Anna Freud
C G. Stanley Hall
D Jean Piaget
Question #40
A Period so turbulent that is resembles the era in which humans evolved from savages into civilized beings
B Time in which teenagers grasp scientific and mathematical principles and grapple with social and political issues
C Biologically based “developmental disturbance”
D Pleasant time of life in which the social environment is responsible for the range of teenage experience
