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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 Focuses heavily on basic skills
C Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
D Offers paid employment as a component of the program
Question #2
A Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
B Hilda, who is in a vocational track
C Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
D Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
Question #3
A A substantial number quietly disengage from school
B Rarely are other warning signs present
C Rarely do these students report a history of dissatisfaction with school
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 Low- SES minority students
B Late-maturing boys and girls
C Early-maturing boys and girls
D Girls more often than boys
Question #6
A Activated the hippocampus, which plays a vital role in explicit memory
B Learned more thoroughly than participants working only on the weather task
C Were able to apply their learning to new weather problems
D Activated subcortical areas involved in implicit memory
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 Remedial
B General education
C Vocational
D College preparatory
Question #9
A The dropout rate is higher among African American teenagers than among Hispanic teenagers
B Nearly all dropouts achieve poorly and show high rates of norm-violating acts
C Risk factors in first grade predict dropout nearly as well as risk factors in secondary school
D Compared with other students, dropouts are more likely to have involved parents
Question #10
A Offering remedial instruction in small classes
B Using standardized testing instead of grades to determine who graduates
C Requiring extracurricular involvement
D Putting students in larger classes
Question #11
A Few high school dropouts return to finish there secondary education
B Today, fewer U.S. youths finish their high school education than 50 years ago
C High school dropouts have a much higher employment rate than high school graduates
D Over 90 percents of U.S. Youths complete high school by age 24
Question #12
A When riley fails to make the volleyball team. She believes that no one has ever felt as disappointed
B Harry believes that he will never have a car accident because he is a better driver than most people
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 As the result of an abrupt, stage wise change
B Through rote memorization
C Through direct instruction from adults and more expert peers
D Through exposure to many experiences that require them to match theories against evidence
Question #14
A Verbal ability
B Emotional self-regulation
C Advanced spatial reasoning
D Metacognition
Question #15
A Literature and writing
B Social Sciences
C Art and music
D Math and science
Question #16
A Occurs gradually from childhood on
B Is found in children as young as 3
C Does appear until adulthood
D Appears at puberty
Question #17
A Formal operational
B Sensorimotor
C Proportional
D Concrete operational
Question #18
A Is much greater among African American than among Caucasian-American youth
B Is a normal part of adolescence and, therefore is not a cause for concern
C Should not taken lightly because a single heavy does can lead to permanent injury or death
D is linked to depression, anxiety, and impulsive behavior
Question #19
Which of the following substances do U.S. adolescents most often experiment with during high school?
A Marijuana
B Cigarettes
C Cocaine
D Alcohol
Question #20
A Often become adolescent parents
B Fare better if the teenage parent drops out of high school
C Have a better chance of gradating high school than children of adult mothers
D Score higher on intelligence tests than children of adult mothers
Question #21
A More often engage in child abuse
B Know more about child development
C Interact more efficiently with their infants
D Perceive their babies as less difficult
Question #22
A Today, about 95 percent of U.S. adolescent mothers graduate from high school
B Very few teen mothers experience pregnancy and birth complications
C Teenage mothers spend more of their parenting years as single parents
D Many teen mothers perceive their babies as less difficult
Question #23
A About 50 or 60 percent of adolescents who report having engaged in homosexual acts identify as heterosexual
B Attraction to members of the same sex is limited to teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual
C Bisexuality is a transient state
D Most homosexual adolescents are “gender-deviant” in dress and behavior
Question #24
A Genetic factors; authoritarian child rearing
B Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
C Social influences; genetic factors
D Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
Question #25
A School sex education classes prevent teenagers from having unprotected sex
B About 20 percent of sexual active U.S. teenagers do not use contraception consistently
C Adolescent contraceptive use has decreased in recent years
D Even teenagers who report talking openly with their parents about sex are unlikely to use birth control
Question #26
A It is usually harder to treat young people with bulimia than those with anorexia
B Bulimics are usually excellent students who are responsible and well- adjusted
C Bulimics typically deny or minimize the seriousness of their disorder
D Bulimics usually feel depressed and guilty about their abnormal eating habits
Question #27
A Half; gay or bisexual youths who are uncomfortable with a strong, muscular appearance
B A quarter; early-maturing youths who are anxious and prone to depression
C Half; also afflicted with bulimia nervosa
D Three- quarters; African-American youths who are dissatisfied with their physical characteristics
Question #28
A Although being anorexia is unhealthy, it is rarely fatal
B Boys account for less than 1 percent of anorexia cases
C About 10 percent of North American and Western European teenagers are affected
D Anorexia nervosa is equally common in all SES groups
Question #29
A Moral issues; lying, stealing, and cheating
B Important family values; a belief in a higher power
C School issues; the importance of education
D Everyday matters; driving,dating partners, and curfews
Question #30
A 13-year-old Tya
B 19-year-old Jesse
C 14-year-old Grace
D 16-year-old Tyler
Question #31
A More stable
B More positive
C Strongly related to situational changes
D Less intense
Question #32
A Are less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors
B Are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression
C Display increases in executive function
D Perform better on cognitive tasks in the morning hours
Question #33
A Cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion
B React more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely
C Have difficulty strong and retrieving long-term memories
D Become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues
Question #34
A The onset of puberty
B Sexual maturation
C Excessive exercise
D Anabolic steroid use
Question #35
A On average, the growth spurt is underway in North America around age 8 for girls and 10 for boys
B Growth in body size is complete for most girls by age 16 and for boys by age 17 1/2
C In early adolescence, the typical girl is shorter and lighter than the typical boy
D The first outward sign of puberty is menarche for girls and spermarche for boys
Question #36
A Are underway by age 8 or 9
B Occur suddenly
C Are underway at birth
D Are unimpressive
Question #37
A Much longer than
B The same length as
C Briefer but less intense than
D Briefer but more intense than
Question #38
A Socially determined
B Influenced by biological, psychological, and social forces
C Biologically determined
D Environmentally determined
Question #39
A Margaret Mead
B Jean Piaget
C G. Stanley Hall
D Anna Freud
Question #40
A Pleasant time of life in which the social environment is responsible for the range of teenage experience
B Biologically based “developmental disturbance”
C Time in which teenagers grasp scientific and mathematical principles and grapple with social and political issues
D Period so turbulent that is resembles the era in which humans evolved from savages into civilized beings
