Chapter 12 Quiz

A  Delinquency and drug use 

B  Later relationship stability 

C  High academic achievement 

D  Depression

A  Companionship

B  Compatibly 

C  Peer status 

D  Affection

A  Often interfere with identity development 

B  Help young people deal with stress 

C  Contribute to a rise in depression

D  Are tightly structured and exclusive

A  Social networking 

B  Cell-phone texting 

C  Instant messaging

D  Cell calling

A  Shared attitudes and values

B  Intimacy

C  Self-disclosure 

D  Shared interests and activities 

A  More intense in positive feelings

B  More intense in negative feelings

C  More important to the teen, but more strained 

D  Less intense in both positive and negative feelings 

A  Heredity plays only a minor role in depression

B  Genes can induce depression by affecting the balance of neurotransmitters in the brain

C  Late-maturing girls are especially prone to depressions

D  Biological changes associated with puberty explain why girls are more prone to depression than boys

A  Just

B  Not

C  Twice

D  Three times

A  An identity crisis

B  Anxiety 

C  Depression

D  A citation C deficiency 

A  Parents should not be concerned about teenagers’ commenting, “I wish i were dead,” because adolescents are overly dramatic

B  Parents and teachers must be trained to pick up on the signals that a troubled teenager sends

C  It is nearly impossible to prevent adolescent suicide, as teenagers rarely exhibit warning signs around adults 

D  Gun-control legislation that restricts the availability of firearms to adolescents has little impact on suicide rates

A   Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youths are at lower risk for suicide 

B   Few suicidal adolescents have a family history of emotional problems 

C  Highly intelligence teens rarely commit suicide

D  Suicidal adolescents are likely to have experienced multiple stressful life events 

A  Girls account for about one in three adolescent arrests for violence 

B  Families of delinquent youths tend to be low in warmth, high in conflict and characterized by harsh, inconsistent discipline and low monitoring

C   Teenagers tend to commit crimes in high SES neighborhoods where parents are more likely to be absent after school and in early evening

D  SES and ethnicity are strongly related to teenagers’ self reports of antisocial acts

A  David, who first displayed antisocial behavior around puberty

B  Lana who was arrested three times in high school but it is now doing well in college

C  Doug, who first showed signs of physical aggression at age 3

D   Shonna, who was first arrested at age 15 when she fell in with the wrong crowd

A  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers daily activities

B  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

C  Have an easier time adapting to their teenagers’ push for autonomy 

D  More readily achieve a mature, harmonious relationship with their teenagers

A  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers’ daily activities 

B  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

C  Have an easier time adapting to their teenagers’ push for autonomy 

D  More readily achieve a mature, harmonious relationship with their teenagers

A  Masculine; boys

B  Androgynous; girls

C  Feminine; girls

D  Androgynous; boys

A  Everyday moral judgements are practical tools that people use to achieve their goals

B  Kohlberg’s stage sequence adequately accounts for morality in everyday life

C  Gilligan’s theory provides a more accurate account of moral reasoning than Kohlberg’s theory

D  Everyday moral judgements are efforts to arrive at just solutions

A  Engages in less misconduct, but is less academically responsible 

B   Is less advanced in moral reasoning

C  Is more involved in community service activities aimed at helping the less fortunate

D  Uses more alcohol, but does not use drugs

A  Church attendance becomes a major source of parent-child conflict 

B  Formal religious involvement tends to increase

C  Formal religious involvement tends to decline

D  Most young people reject the idea of a “higher being”

A  A permissive child-rearing style

B  Inductive discipline

C  A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style

D  An authoritarian

A  Modest

B  Weak

C  Strong

D  Very strong

A  Justice 

B  Other-directed

C  Level of

D  Private conscience

A  Like minded peers

B  Peers of the same race

C  Peers of the same ethnicity

D   Peers who present differing viewpoints

A  Thom will say that the exclusion is acceptable under certain circumstances

B  Timmy will say that the exclusion is acceptable under certain circumstances

C  Timmy will say that the exclusion is always acceptable

D  Thom will say that the exclusion is always unfair

A  Most do not support her contention

B  The results are too inconclusive to reach consensus 

C  Measuring an “ethic’ of care” is too difficult to be reliable 

D  Most have used invalid measures

A  5

B  3

C  6

D  4

A  Pre-conventional

B  Universal ethnical 

C  Conventional 

D  Post-conventional

A  Interviewing parents about how their children would behave under a variety of circumstances

B  Presenting children and adults with moral dilemmas, and asking them what the main actor should do and why

C  Observing his own children in situations where they were tempted to something they knew was wrong

D  Using puppets to act our misbehavior and then asking children to explain why the puppet was wrong

A  Acculturative stress

B  Bicultural identity

C  Ethnic identity 

D  Identity diffusion

A   Moratorium

B  Foreclosure

C   Diffusion

D  Achievement 

A   Delayed

B  Foreclosed

C  Achieved 

D  Diffused 

A  Diffusion

B  Foreclosure

C  Achievement 

D  Moratorium

A  Diffusion

B  Moratorium 

C  Foreclosure

D   Achievement 

A  Authoritarian 

B  Uninvolved 

C  Permissive

D  Authoritative

A  Fluctuates a great deal

B  Declines

C  Declines

D  Rises

A  I am good athlete, I play three sports: soccer, tennis, and wrestling. It is hard to get my homework done

B  I am not all that smart. I try really hard, but i can never seem to remember all of the details for the test

C  I’m talkative around friends, who really listen to me, but at home, i clam up because no one really hears me

D  I am usually pretty honest, but sometimes I cheat on my homework 

A  Exploration followed by commitment 

B  An identity crisis and a resolution 

C  Forming an ideal self 

D  Experimentation and error

A  Role confusion 

B  Isolation

C  Inferiority

D  Mistrust 

A   Adopting his parents’ values as his own 

B  Considering a moral dilemma

C  Constructing his identity

D  Building his self esteem

A  Autonomy

B  Identity 

C  Trust

D  Intimacy