Chapter 12 Quiz

A  High academic achievement 

B  Depression

C  Later relationship stability 

D  Delinquency and drug use 

A  Compatibly 

B  Companionship

C  Affection

D  Peer status 

A  Often interfere with identity development 

B  Are tightly structured and exclusive

C  Help young people deal with stress 

D  Contribute to a rise in depression

A  Cell calling

B  Social networking 

C  Cell-phone texting 

D  Instant messaging

A  Shared interests and activities 

B  Intimacy

C  Self-disclosure 

D  Shared attitudes and values

A  More important to the teen, but more strained 

B  More intense in negative feelings

C  Less intense in both positive and negative feelings 

D  More intense in positive feelings

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

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

C  Late-maturing girls are especially prone to depressions

D  Heredity plays only a minor role in depression

A  Just

B  Twice

C  Three times

D  Not

A  An identity crisis

B  Depression

C  A citation C deficiency 

D  Anxiety 

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

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

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  Highly intelligence teens rarely commit suicide

D   Few suicidal adolescents have a family history of emotional problems 

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

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

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

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

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

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  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  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers’ daily activities 

B  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

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

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

A  Androgynous; girls

B  Masculine; boys

C  Feminine; girls

D  Androgynous; boys

A  Everyday moral judgements are efforts to arrive at just solutions

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

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

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

A   Is less advanced in moral reasoning

B  Engages in less misconduct, but is less academically responsible 

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

D  Uses more alcohol, but does not use drugs

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  A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style

B  Inductive discipline

C  A permissive child-rearing style

D  An authoritarian

A  Strong

B  Very strong

C  Weak

D  Modest

A  Private conscience

B  Justice 

C  Level of

D  Other-directed

A   Peers who present differing viewpoints

B  Like minded peers

C  Peers of the same ethnicity

D  Peers of the same race

A  Thom will say that the exclusion is always unfair

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

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

D  Timmy will say that the exclusion is always acceptable

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  3

C  6

D  5

A  Post-conventional

B  Conventional 

C  Universal ethnical 

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

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

A  Ethnic identity 

B  Bicultural identity

C  Identity diffusion

D  Acculturative stress

A   Diffusion

B  Foreclosure

C   Moratorium

D  Achievement 

A   Delayed

B  Diffused 

C  Achieved 

D  Foreclosed

A  Diffusion

B  Foreclosure

C  Achievement 

D  Moratorium

A  Moratorium 

B  Diffusion

C   Achievement 

D  Foreclosure

A  Authoritarian 

B  Uninvolved 

C  Permissive

D  Authoritative

A  Rises

B  Fluctuates a great deal

C  Declines

D  Declines

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

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

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

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

A  Experimentation and error

B  Forming an ideal self 

C  An identity crisis and a resolution 

D  Exploration followed by commitment 

A  Inferiority

B  Mistrust 

C  Isolation

D  Role confusion 

A  Constructing his identity

B   Adopting his parents’ values as his own 

C  Considering a moral dilemma

D  Building his self esteem

A  Autonomy

B  Intimacy

C  Identity 

D  Trust