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Fresh Grad Lands Job as Real Estate Agent With Help from Professional Writers

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Manush is a recent graduate from a prestigious university in California who is looking for a job opportunity as a real estate agent.  While he already has samples provided by his friends, he still feels something lacking in his resume.  Specifically, the he believes that his professional objective statement lacks focus and clarity. 

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“Kudos to the team for a job well done.  I am sincerely appreciative of the time and effort you gave on my resume.  You did not only help me land the job I had always been dreaming of but you also made me realize how important adding those specific keywords to my resume!  Cheers!

Manush’s story shows the importance of using powerful keywords to his resume in landing the job he wanted.

Chapter 10 Quiz

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Question #1
A  Mediation 
B  Joint physical custody
C  Authoritarian parenting
D  Coparenting 
Question #2
A  Coregulation
B  Mediated custody
C  Divorce mediation
D  Joint custody 
Question #3
A  Kate, his 9 year old daughter
B  Max, his 11 year old son
C  Harry, his 6 year old son
D  Liem, his 3 year old son
Question #4
A  More adjustment problems 
B  Better relationships with their parents
C  Higher self-esteem
D  Fewer behavior problems
Question #5
A  8 to 10 year old, is afraid to be separated from his mother
B  5 to 7 year old is afraid of academic failure
C  8 to 10 year old has permissive parents 
D  11 to 13 year old, fears a bully
Question #6
A  Exposure to fairy tales
B  Exposure to negative information in media 
C  Direct exposure to frightening events
D  School or neighborhood bullies
Question #7
A  Is less common among children whose parents use an authoritative child rearing style
B  Is less common among children with a mastery-oriented approach to new situations
C  Enables children to use internal and external resources to cope with adversity
D  Is a preexisting attribute weather than a capacity that develops over time
Question #8
A  Often just one or a few protective factors account for a child being “stress-resilient”
B  There is a strong relationship between stressful experiences and psychological disturbance 
C  Traits and experiences that protect children against psychological disturbance are unknown
Question #9
A  Trend to avoid sexual activity in adolescence 
B  Frequently displayed precocoious sexual knowledge and behavior 
C  Usually tell a parent or teacher what has happened
D  Adjust better when allowed to face their abuser in court 
Question #10
A   Inhibited
B  Impulsive
C  Easy
D  Active
Question #11
A  Thunder and lightning
B  Peer rejection
C  The dark 
D  Ghosts and goblins
Question #13
A  Are less likely to bend to peer pressure
B  Have fewer emotional difficulties
C  Are more likely to engage in antisocial behavior
D  Show greater academic achievement 
Question #14
A  Higher intelligence 
B  More immature social behavior 
C  Lower achievement 
D  More gender-stereotyped beliefs
Question #15
A  Fathers are more knowledgeable than mothers about children’s everyday activities 
B  Fathers engage in as much caregiving as mothers
C  Fathers spend more time than meters with school-age children 
D  Each parents tends to devote more time to children of his or her own sex
Question #16
A  Is an agreement between parents and other caregivers to be consistent with rules 
B   involves from parental control and greater child dependence
C   Is a permissive child-rearing style where the child takes responsibly or making rules
D  Involves general parental oversight while letting the child make moment by moment decisions 
Question #17
A  Distributive justice
B  Permissive parenting
C  Coregulation
D  Transitive inference 
Question #18
A  Uninvolved 
B  Permissive
C  Authoritarian 
D  Authoritative 
Question #19
A  Language arts; masculine
B  Reading; feminine
C  physical education; feminine
D  Music; masculine
Question #20
A  Personal defense 
B  Public speaking
C  Positive social skills
D  Public speaking
Question #21
A   The children are more likely to team up and retaliate against the bully
B  Bullying often comes to an end
C  The bully often targets the new friend
D  The new friend is often ostracized by other children 
Question #23
A  Combine academic and social competence
B  Are anxious, unhappy, and low in self-esteem
C  Include “tough” boys and relationally aggressive boys and girls
D  Show high rates of absenteeism and prosocial behavior
Question #24
A  Extended family 
B  Church
C  home
D  Society of peers
Question #25
A  Helen, who views others traits as fixed
B  Jane, who has overly high self esteem 
C  Angie, who has very low self esteem
D  Lisa, who views others traits as changeable
Question #26
A  Pick up morally relevant behaviors,but do not understand the reasons behind them
B  Reject conventional standards for moral behavior
C  Have internalized rules for good conduct 
D  Begin to recognize that the context of behavior is more important than the intent
Question #27
A  Think about thinking 
B  Redefine the situation and appraise it as unchangeable 
C  Opt for distraction when faced with outcomes beyond their control, such as receiving a bad grade
D  Appraise the situation as changeable, identify the difficulty and decide what to do about it 
Question #28
A  Negative emotions are more frequent than positive emotions
B  People’s expressions may not reflect their true feelings
C  Postive and negative emotions cannot be experienced simultaneously 
D  Tone of voice is a more accurate predicator of emotion than facial expressions
Question #29
A   Lying and cheating
B  Intentional wrongdoing
C   Depressive symptoms
D  Ignoring responsibilities 
Question #30
A  Attribution retraining encourages children to believe that success should be attributed to ability, rather than luck or effort
B  Attribution retraining is an alternative to instruction in effective strategies and self-regulation
C  One approach is to encourage low-effort students to focus more on grades and less on mastering a task for individual improvement 
D  Following a failure, children are given repeated feedback that helps them revise their attributions, such as “You can do it if you try harder.”
Question #32
A  Bad luck
B  The malicious intent of another person
C  Insufficient effort
D  Ability
Question #33
A  Use a firm, controlling parenting style
B   Encourage their children to stave for worthwhile goals
C  Use frequent social comparisons 
D  Make decisions for their children 
Question #34
A  Have permissive parents
B  Spend longer hours in child care
C  Attend schools in high SES neighborhoods, regardless of their own SES
D  Attend school where their SES and ethnic groups are well-represented
Question #35
A  From fourth grade on, self esteem drops for the majority of young people
B  Children’s self evaluations become increasingly vague and overlapping with age
C  Throughout middle childhood, girls’ self esteem tends to be higher than boys’
D  Perceived physical appearance correlates more strongly with overall self-worth than any other self-esteem factor
Question #36
A  A large discrepancy between an ideal self and a real self boosts self esteem
B  As children move into adolescences, self concept is increasingly vested in feedback from close friends
C  School-age children often avoid making social comparisons when describing themselves
D  In middle childhood, self-descriptions rarely include reference to social groups
Question #37
A  Seldom look to people beyond the family for information about themselves 
B  Form an ideal self that they use to evaluate their real self 
C  experience shame, the negative outcome of middle childhood
D  Develop a strong sense of superiority
Question #38
A  Describe themselves in unrealistically positive terms
B  Compare their own characteristics to those of peers
C  reject conventional standards for moral behavior
D  Experience role confusion
Question #40
A  Role confusion
B  Shame
C   Inferiority
D   Industry