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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Offers paid employment as a component of the program
B Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
C Focuses heavily on job-related instruction
D Focuses heavily on basic skills
Question #2
A Hilda, who is in a vocational track
B Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
C Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
D Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
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 Particularly high among low SES Caucasian youth
B Close to 20 percent and rising
C Higher among boys than girls
D Especially low among Hispanic teenagers
Question #5
A Early-maturing boys and girls
B Low- SES minority students
C Late-maturing boys and girls
D Girls more often than boys
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 Have parents who value effort
C Are less involved in extracurricular activities
D Share those values
Question #8
A Vocational
B General education
C Remedial
D College preparatory
Question #9
A The dropout rate is higher among African American teenagers than among Hispanic teenagers
B Risk factors in first grade predict dropout nearly as well as risk factors in secondary school
C Compared with other students, dropouts are more likely to have involved parents
D Nearly all dropouts achieve poorly and show high rates of norm-violating acts
Question #10
A Putting students in larger classes
B Using standardized testing instead of grades to determine who graduates
C Offering remedial instruction in small classes
D Requiring extracurricular involvement
Question #11
A Today, fewer U.S. youths finish their high school education than 50 years ago
B Over 90 percents of U.S. Youths complete high school by age 24
C High school dropouts have a much higher employment rate than high school graduates
D Few high school dropouts return to finish there secondary education
Question #12
A Harry believes that he will never have a car accident because he is a better driver than most people
B When her fork falls off her tray in the cafeteria, Hannah is certain that everyone is thinking that she is clumsy
C Benny goes to the Friday night football game with a group of friends and cheers as loud as anyone else
D When riley fails to make the volleyball team. She believes that no one has ever felt as disappointed
Question #13
A As the result of an abrupt, stage wise change
B Through exposure to many experiences that require them to match theories against evidence
C Through rote memorization
D Through direct instruction from adults and more expert peers
Question #14
A Metacognition
B Advanced spatial reasoning
C Emotional self-regulation
D Verbal ability
Question #15
A Literature and writing
B Math and science
C Social Sciences
D Art and music
Question #16
A Occurs gradually from childhood on
B Does appear until adulthood
C Is found in children as young as 3
D Appears at puberty
Question #17
A Proportional
B Sensorimotor
C Concrete operational
D Formal operational
Question #18
A Should not taken lightly because a single heavy does can lead to permanent injury or death
B is linked to depression, anxiety, and impulsive behavior
C Is much greater among African American than among Caucasian-American youth
D Is a normal part of adolescence and, therefore is not a cause for concern
Question #19
Which of the following substances do U.S. adolescents most often experiment with during high school?
A Alcohol
B Cigarettes
C Marijuana
D Cocaine
Question #20
A Fare better if the teenage parent drops out of high school
B Have a better chance of gradating high school than children of adult mothers
C Often become adolescent parents
D Score higher on intelligence tests than children of adult mothers
Question #21
A More often engage in child abuse
B Perceive their babies as less difficult
C Interact more efficiently with their infants
D Know more about child development
Question #22
A Many teen mothers perceive their babies as less difficult
B Teenage mothers spend more of their parenting years as single parents
C Today, about 95 percent of U.S. adolescent mothers graduate from high school
D Very few teen mothers experience pregnancy and birth complications
Question #23
A Bisexuality is a transient state
B Most homosexual adolescents are “gender-deviant” in dress and behavior
C Attraction to members of the same sex is limited to teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual
D About 50 or 60 percent of adolescents who report having engaged in homosexual acts identify as heterosexual
Question #24
A Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
B Social influences; genetic factors
C Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
D Genetic factors; authoritarian child rearing
Question #25
A School sex education classes prevent teenagers from having unprotected sex
B Adolescent contraceptive use has decreased in recent years
C Even teenagers who report talking openly with their parents about sex are unlikely to use birth control
D About 20 percent of sexual active U.S. teenagers do not use contraception consistently
Question #26
A Bulimics usually feel depressed and guilty about their abnormal eating habits
B Bulimics typically deny or minimize the seriousness of their disorder
C It is usually harder to treat young people with bulimia than those with anorexia
D Bulimics are usually excellent students who are responsible and well- adjusted
Question #27
A Half; gay or bisexual youths who are uncomfortable with a strong, muscular appearance
B Half; also afflicted with bulimia nervosa
C A quarter; early-maturing youths who are anxious and prone to depression
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 Although being anorexia is unhealthy, it is rarely fatal
C Boys account for less than 1 percent of anorexia cases
D About 10 percent of North American and Western European teenagers are affected
Question #29
A School issues; the importance of education
B Everyday matters; driving,dating partners, and curfews
C Important family values; a belief in a higher power
D Moral issues; lying, stealing, and cheating
Question #30
A 16-year-old Tyler
B 19-year-old Jesse
C 14-year-old Grace
D 13-year-old Tya
Question #31
A Less intense
B More positive
C Strongly related to situational changes
D More stable
Question #32
A Are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression
B Display increases in executive function
C Perform better on cognitive tasks in the morning hours
D Are less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors
Question #33
A Become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues
B Cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion
C Have difficulty strong and retrieving long-term memories
D React more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely
Question #34
A Excessive exercise
B Sexual maturation
C The onset of puberty
D Anabolic steroid use
Question #35
A Growth in body size is complete for most girls by age 16 and for boys by age 17 1/2
B On average, the growth spurt is underway in North America around age 8 for girls and 10 for boys
C The first outward sign of puberty is menarche for girls and spermarche for boys
D In early adolescence, the typical girl is shorter and lighter than the typical boy
Question #36
A Are unimpressive
B Occur suddenly
C Are underway at birth
D Are underway by age 8 or 9
Question #37
A Much longer than
B Briefer but less intense than
C Briefer but more intense than
D The same length as
Question #38
A Environmentally determined
B Socially determined
C Biologically determined
D Influenced by biological, psychological, and social forces
Question #39
A G. Stanley Hall
B Margaret Mead
C Jean Piaget
D Anna Freud
Question #40
A Biologically based “developmental disturbance”
B Period so turbulent that is resembles the era in which humans evolved from savages into civilized beings
C Pleasant time of life in which the social environment is responsible for the range of teenage experience
D Time in which teenagers grasp scientific and mathematical principles and grapple with social and political issues
