Chapter 12 Quiz

A  Depression

B  High academic achievement 

C  Delinquency and drug use 

D  Later relationship stability 

A  Companionship

B  Peer status 

C  Compatibly 

D  Affection

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 calling

B  Instant messaging

C  Cell-phone texting 

D  Social networking 

A  Shared attitudes and values

B  Shared interests and activities 

C  Intimacy

D  Self-disclosure 

A  Less intense in both positive and negative feelings 

B  More intense in positive feelings

C  More important to the teen, but more strained 

D  More intense in 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  Twice

C  Not

D  Three times

A  Depression

B  A citation C deficiency 

C  Anxiety 

D  An identity crisis

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

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

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   Few suicidal adolescents have a family history of emotional problems 

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

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

D  Highly intelligence teens rarely commit suicide

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

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

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

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

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  More readily achieve a mature, harmonious relationship with their teenagers

B  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers daily activities

C  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

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

A  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

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

C  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers’ daily activities 

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

A  Androgynous; boys

B  Masculine; boys

C  Androgynous; girls

D  Feminine; girls

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

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

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

D  Everyday moral judgements are efforts to arrive at just solutions

A  Engages in less misconduct, but is less academically responsible 

B  Uses more alcohol, but does not use drugs

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

D   Is less advanced in moral reasoning

A  Formal religious involvement tends to increase

B  Formal religious involvement tends to decline

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

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

A  A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style

B  Inductive discipline

C  An authoritarian

D  A permissive child-rearing style

A  Very strong

B  Modest

C  Strong

D  Weak

A  Other-directed

B  Justice 

C  Private conscience

D  Level of

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

C  Most have used invalid measures

D  The results are too inconclusive to reach consensus 

A  4

B  6

C  3

D  5

A  Conventional 

B  Post-conventional

C  Pre-conventional

D  Universal ethnical 

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

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

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

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

A  Bicultural identity

B  Acculturative stress

C  Identity diffusion

D  Ethnic identity 

A   Moratorium

B  Foreclosure

C  Achievement 

D   Diffusion

A  Achieved 

B   Delayed

C  Foreclosed

D  Diffused 

A  Achievement 

B  Diffusion

C  Foreclosure

D  Moratorium

A  Moratorium 

B  Diffusion

C  Foreclosure

D   Achievement 

A  Uninvolved 

B  Authoritarian 

C  Authoritative

D  Permissive

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

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  Experimentation and error

B  An identity crisis and a resolution 

C  Forming an ideal self 

D  Exploration followed by commitment 

A  Isolation

B  Role confusion 

C  Mistrust 

D  Inferiority

A  Building his self esteem

B   Adopting his parents’ values as his own 

C  Constructing his identity

D  Considering a moral dilemma

A  Identity 

B  Trust

C  Intimacy

D  Autonomy