Chapter 12 Quiz

A  Later relationship stability 

B  High academic achievement 

C  Delinquency and drug use 

D  Depression

A  Affection

B  Companionship

C  Compatibly 

D  Peer status 

A  Are tightly structured and exclusive

B  Contribute to a rise in depression

C  Help young people deal with stress 

D  Often interfere with identity development 

A  Cell-phone texting 

B  Instant messaging

C  Social networking 

D  Cell calling

A  Shared interests and activities 

B  Intimacy

C  Self-disclosure 

D  Shared attitudes and values

A  Less intense in both positive and negative feelings 

B  More intense in negative feelings

C  More intense in positive feelings

D  More important to the teen, but more strained 

A  Heredity plays only a minor role in depression

B  Late-maturing girls are especially prone to depressions

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

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

A  Twice

B  Just

C  Not

D  Three times

A  An identity crisis

B  A citation C deficiency 

C  Anxiety 

D  Depression

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

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

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

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  Suicidal adolescents are likely to have experienced multiple stressful life events 

C   Few suicidal adolescents have a family history of emotional problems 

D  Highly intelligence teens rarely commit suicide

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

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

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

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

A  David, who first displayed antisocial behavior around puberty

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

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

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

A  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

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

C  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers daily activities

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

A  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

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

C  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers’ daily activities 

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

A  Androgynous; boys

B  Masculine; boys

C  Feminine; girls

D  Androgynous; girls

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

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

C  Everyday moral judgements are efforts to arrive at just solutions

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

A   Is less advanced in moral reasoning

B  Uses more alcohol, but does not use drugs

C  Engages in less misconduct, but is less academically responsible 

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

A  Formal religious involvement tends to increase

B  Formal religious involvement tends to decline

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

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

A  A permissive child-rearing style

B  Inductive discipline

C  An authoritarian

D  A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style

A  Weak

B  Strong

C  Very strong

D  Modest

A  Other-directed

B  Level of

C  Private conscience

D  Justice 

A  Peers of the same race

B  Like minded peers

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  Thom will say that the exclusion is always unfair

C  Timmy will say that the exclusion is always acceptable

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

A  Most do not support her contention

B  Most have used invalid measures

C  The results are too inconclusive to reach consensus 

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

A  5

B  6

C  3

D  4

A  Conventional 

B  Universal ethnical 

C  Pre-conventional

D  Post-conventional

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

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

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

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

A  Identity diffusion

B  Acculturative stress

C  Ethnic identity 

D  Bicultural identity

A   Moratorium

B  Foreclosure

C  Achievement 

D   Diffusion

A  Foreclosed

B   Delayed

C  Achieved 

D  Diffused 

A  Foreclosure

B  Achievement 

C  Moratorium

D  Diffusion

A  Moratorium 

B  Foreclosure

C  Diffusion

D   Achievement 

A  Authoritative

B  Uninvolved 

C  Authoritarian 

D  Permissive

A  Declines

B  Rises

C  Fluctuates a great deal

D  Declines

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

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

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

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

A  An identity crisis and a resolution 

B  Experimentation and error

C  Exploration followed by commitment 

D  Forming an ideal self 

A  Mistrust 

B  Inferiority

C  Isolation

D  Role confusion 

A  Considering a moral dilemma

B   Adopting his parents’ values as his own 

C  Constructing his identity

D  Building his self esteem

A  Intimacy

B  Trust

C  Autonomy

D  Identity