Chapter 12 Quiz

A  High academic achievement 

B  Delinquency and drug use 

C  Depression

D  Later relationship stability 

A  Peer status 

B  Affection

C  Companionship

D  Compatibly 

A  Help young people deal with stress 

B  Contribute to a rise in depression

C  Often interfere with identity development 

D  Are tightly structured and exclusive

A  Social networking 

B  Cell calling

C  Instant messaging

D  Cell-phone texting 

A  Shared interests and activities 

B  Self-disclosure 

C  Shared attitudes and values

D  Intimacy

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

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

C  Late-maturing girls are especially prone to depressions

D  Heredity plays only a minor role in depression

A  Not

B  Three times

C  Twice

D  Just

A  Anxiety 

B  A citation C deficiency 

C  Depression

D  An identity crisis

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

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

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

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

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

B  Highly intelligence teens rarely commit suicide

C   Few suicidal adolescents have a family history of emotional problems 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D  David, who first displayed antisocial behavior around puberty

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

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

C  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

D  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers daily activities

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

B  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

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

D  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers’ daily activities 

A  Masculine; boys

B  Androgynous; boys

C  Feminine; girls

D  Androgynous; girls

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

B  Everyday moral judgements are efforts to arrive at just solutions

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

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

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

B  Uses more alcohol, but does not use drugs

C   Is less advanced in moral reasoning

D  Engages in less misconduct, but is less academically responsible 

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

B  Formal religious involvement tends to decline

C  Formal religious involvement tends to increase

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

A  Inductive discipline

B  A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style

C  A permissive child-rearing style

D  An authoritarian

A  Weak

B  Modest

C  Strong

D  Very strong

A  Justice 

B  Private conscience

C  Level of

D  Other-directed

A  Peers of the same race

B   Peers who present differing viewpoints

C  Like minded peers

D  Peers of the same ethnicity

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

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

C  Thom will say that the exclusion is always unfair

D  Timmy will say that the exclusion is always acceptable

A  Most have used invalid measures

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

C  The results are too inconclusive to reach consensus 

D  Most do not support her contention

A  3

B  4

C  5

D  6

A  Pre-conventional

B  Post-conventional

C  Universal ethnical 

D  Conventional 

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

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

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

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

A  Identity diffusion

B  Bicultural identity

C  Acculturative stress

D  Ethnic identity 

A   Moratorium

B  Foreclosure

C   Diffusion

D  Achievement 

A  Achieved 

B  Foreclosed

C  Diffused 

D   Delayed

A  Moratorium

B  Diffusion

C  Achievement 

D  Foreclosure

A  Moratorium 

B  Foreclosure

C   Achievement 

D  Diffusion

A  Permissive

B  Uninvolved 

C  Authoritarian 

D  Authoritative

A  Declines

B  Declines

C  Rises

D  Fluctuates a great deal

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

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

A  An identity crisis and a resolution 

B  Experimentation and error

C  Exploration followed by commitment 

D  Forming an ideal self 

A  Isolation

B  Role confusion 

C  Mistrust 

D  Inferiority

A  Building his self esteem

B  Considering a moral dilemma

C   Adopting his parents’ values as his own 

D  Constructing his identity

A  Identity 

B  Trust

C  Autonomy

D  Intimacy