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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 Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
C Offers paid employment as a component of the program
D Focuses heavily on basic skills
Question #2
A Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
B Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
C Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
D Hilda, who is in a vocational track
Question #3
A A substantial number quietly disengage from school
B Rarely do these students report a history of dissatisfaction with school
C Rarely are other warning signs present
D These students are nonetheless likely to find adequate employment after leaving school
Question #4
A Especially low among Hispanic teenagers
B Close to 20 percent and rising
C Particularly high among low SES Caucasian youth
D Higher among boys than girls
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 Were able to apply their learning to new weather problems
B Activated the hippocampus, which plays a vital role in explicit memory
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 academically successful
B Share those values
C Have parents who value effort
D Are less involved in extracurricular activities
Question #8
A Remedial
B Vocational
C General education
D College preparatory
Question #9
A Nearly all dropouts achieve poorly and show high rates of norm-violating acts
B Compared with other students, dropouts are more likely to have involved parents
C Risk factors in first grade predict dropout nearly as well as risk factors in secondary school
D The dropout rate is higher among African American teenagers than among Hispanic teenagers
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 Over 90 percents of U.S. Youths complete high school by age 24
B Today, fewer U.S. youths finish their high school education than 50 years ago
C Few high school dropouts return to finish there secondary education
D High school dropouts have a much higher employment rate than high school graduates
Question #12
A Harry believes that he will never have a car accident because he is a better driver than most people
B When riley fails to make the volleyball team. She believes that no one has ever felt as disappointed
C When her fork falls off her tray in the cafeteria, Hannah is certain that everyone is thinking that she is clumsy
D Benny goes to the Friday night football game with a group of friends and cheers as loud as anyone else
Question #13
A Through exposure to many experiences that require them to match theories against evidence
B Through direct instruction from adults and more expert peers
C Through rote memorization
D As the result of an abrupt, stage wise change
Question #14
A Verbal ability
B Metacognition
C Advanced spatial reasoning
D Emotional self-regulation
Question #15
A Social Sciences
B Art and music
C Literature and writing
D Math and science
Question #16
A Is found in children as young as 3
B Appears at puberty
C Occurs gradually from childhood on
D Does appear until adulthood
Question #17
A Formal operational
B Proportional
C Sensorimotor
D Concrete 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 Cocaine
C Cigarettes
D Alcohol
Question #20
A Have a better chance of gradating high school than children of adult mothers
B Often become adolescent parents
C Score higher on intelligence tests than children of adult mothers
D Fare better if the teenage parent drops out of high school
Question #21
A Perceive their babies as less difficult
B Know more about child development
C More often engage in child abuse
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 Today, about 95 percent of U.S. adolescent mothers graduate from high school
D Teenage mothers spend more of their parenting years as single parents
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 Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
B Social influences; genetic factors
C Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
D Genetic factors; authoritarian child rearing
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 Bulimics usually feel depressed and guilty about their abnormal eating habits
B Bulimics are usually excellent students who are responsible and well- adjusted
C Bulimics typically deny or minimize the seriousness of their disorder
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 Half; gay or bisexual youths who are uncomfortable with a strong, muscular appearance
C Half; also afflicted with bulimia nervosa
D Three- quarters; African-American youths who are dissatisfied with their physical characteristics
Question #28
A Anorexia nervosa is equally common in all SES groups
B About 10 percent of North American and Western European teenagers are affected
C Boys account for less than 1 percent of anorexia cases
D Although being anorexia is unhealthy, it is rarely fatal
Question #29
A Everyday matters; driving,dating partners, and curfews
B Important family values; a belief in a higher power
C Moral issues; lying, stealing, and cheating
D School issues; the importance of education
Question #30
A 16-year-old Tyler
B 13-year-old Tya
C 19-year-old Jesse
D 14-year-old Grace
Question #31
A More stable
B More positive
C Strongly related to situational changes
D Less intense
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 React more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely
B Become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues
C Cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion
D Have difficulty strong and retrieving long-term memories
Question #34
A Sexual maturation
B Excessive exercise
C Anabolic steroid use
D The onset of puberty
Question #35
A Growth in body size is complete for most girls by age 16 and for boys by age 17 1/2
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 On average, the growth spurt is underway in North America around age 8 for girls and 10 for boys
Question #36
A Are underway by age 8 or 9
B Are unimpressive
C Occur suddenly
D Are underway at birth
Question #37
A Much longer than
B Briefer but less intense than
C The same length as
D Briefer but more intense than
Question #38
A Influenced by biological, psychological, and social forces
B Environmentally determined
C Socially determined
D Biologically determined
Question #39
A Anna Freud
B G. Stanley Hall
C Jean Piaget
D Margaret Mead
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
