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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Focuses heavily on basic skills
B Focuses heavily on job-related instruction
C Offers paid employment as a component of the program
D Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
Question #2
A Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
B Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
C Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
D Hilda, who is in a vocational track
Question #3
A Rarely are other warning signs present
B Rarely do these students report a history of dissatisfaction with school
C These students are nonetheless likely to find adequate employment after leaving school
D A substantial number quietly disengage from school
Question #4
A Particularly high among low SES Caucasian youth
B Especially low among Hispanic teenagers
C Close to 20 percent and rising
D Higher among boys than girls
Question #5
A Low- SES minority students
B Early-maturing boys and girls
C Girls more often than boys
D Late-maturing boys and girls
Question #6
A Learned more thoroughly than participants working only on the weather task
B Were able to apply their learning to new weather problems
C Activated the hippocampus, which plays a vital role in explicit memory
D Activated subcortical areas involved in implicit memory
Question #7
A Have parents who value effort
B Are less involved in extracurricular activities
C Share those values
D Are less academically successful
Question #8
A Vocational
B Remedial
C General education
D College preparatory
Question #9
A Risk factors in first grade predict dropout nearly as well as risk factors in secondary school
B Nearly all dropouts achieve poorly and show high rates of norm-violating acts
C Compared with other students, dropouts are more likely to have involved parents
D The dropout rate is higher among African American teenagers than among Hispanic teenagers
Question #10
A Putting students in larger classes
B Requiring extracurricular involvement
C Using standardized testing instead of grades to determine who graduates
D Offering remedial instruction in small classes
Question #11
A Over 90 percents of U.S. Youths complete high school by age 24
B Today, fewer U.S. youths finish their high school education than 50 years ago
C Few high school dropouts return to finish there secondary education
D High school dropouts have a much higher employment rate than high school graduates
Question #12
A When riley fails to make the volleyball team. She believes that no one has ever felt as disappointed
B Benny goes to the Friday night football game with a group of friends and cheers as loud as anyone else
C Harry believes that he will never have a car accident because he is a better driver than most people
D When her fork falls off her tray in the cafeteria, Hannah is certain that everyone is thinking that she is clumsy
Question #13
A Through exposure to many experiences that require them to match theories against evidence
B Through rote memorization
C As the result of an abrupt, stage wise change
D Through direct instruction from adults and more expert peers
Question #14
A Metacognition
B Verbal ability
C Advanced spatial reasoning
D Emotional self-regulation
Question #15
A Math and science
B Literature and writing
C Art and music
D Social Sciences
Question #16
A Appears at puberty
B Is found in children as young as 3
C Does appear until adulthood
D Occurs gradually from childhood on
Question #17
A Proportional
B Formal operational
C Concrete operational
D Sensorimotor
Question #18
A Is a normal part of adolescence and, therefore is not a cause for concern
B Should not taken lightly because a single heavy does can lead to permanent injury or death
C is linked to depression, anxiety, and impulsive behavior
D Is much greater among African American than among Caucasian-American youth
Question #19
Which of the following substances do U.S. adolescents most often experiment with during high school?
A Alcohol
B Cigarettes
C Cocaine
D Marijuana
Question #20
A Fare better if the teenage parent drops out of high school
B Often become adolescent parents
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 Interact more efficiently with their infants
B More often engage in child abuse
C Perceive their babies as less difficult
D Know more about child development
Question #22
A Today, about 95 percent of U.S. adolescent mothers graduate from high school
B Teenage mothers spend more of their parenting years as single parents
C Many teen mothers perceive their babies as less difficult
D Very few teen mothers experience pregnancy and birth complications
Question #23
A Attraction to members of the same sex is limited to teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual
B Most homosexual adolescents are “gender-deviant” in dress and behavior
C About 50 or 60 percent of adolescents who report having engaged in homosexual acts identify as heterosexual
D Bisexuality is a transient state
Question #24
A Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
B Social influences; genetic factors
C Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
D Genetic factors; authoritarian child rearing
Question #25
A Adolescent contraceptive use has decreased in recent years
B School sex education classes prevent teenagers from having unprotected sex
C About 20 percent of sexual active U.S. teenagers do not use contraception consistently
D Even teenagers who report talking openly with their parents about sex are unlikely to use birth control
Question #26
A Bulimics typically deny or minimize the seriousness of their disorder
B Bulimics usually feel depressed and guilty about their abnormal eating habits
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 A quarter; early-maturing youths who are anxious and prone to depression
B Half; gay or bisexual youths who are uncomfortable with a strong, muscular appearance
C Three- quarters; African-American youths who are dissatisfied with their physical characteristics
D Half; also afflicted with bulimia nervosa
Question #28
A Boys account for less than 1 percent of anorexia cases
B Anorexia nervosa is equally common in all SES groups
C Although being anorexia is unhealthy, it is rarely fatal
D About 10 percent of North American and Western European teenagers are affected
Question #29
A Moral issues; lying, stealing, and cheating
B School issues; the importance of education
C Important family values; a belief in a higher power
D Everyday matters; driving,dating partners, and curfews
Question #30
A 16-year-old Tyler
B 14-year-old Grace
C 19-year-old Jesse
D 13-year-old Tya
Question #31
A Less intense
B More stable
C More positive
D Strongly related to situational changes
Question #32
A Perform better on cognitive tasks in the morning hours
B Are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression
C Are less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors
D Display increases in executive function
Question #33
A Have difficulty strong and retrieving long-term memories
B Cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion
C Become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues
D React more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely
Question #34
A Anabolic steroid use
B Excessive exercise
C The onset of puberty
D Sexual maturation
Question #35
A In early adolescence, the typical girl is shorter and lighter than the typical boy
B On average, the growth spurt is underway in North America around age 8 for girls and 10 for boys
C Growth in body size is complete for most girls by age 16 and for boys by age 17 1/2
D The first outward sign of puberty is menarche for girls and spermarche for boys
Question #36
A Occur suddenly
B Are underway by age 8 or 9
C Are unimpressive
D Are underway at birth
Question #37
A Briefer but more intense than
B The same length as
C Much longer than
D Briefer but less intense than
Question #38
A Socially determined
B Biologically determined
C Environmentally determined
D Influenced by biological, psychological, and social forces
Question #39
A Margaret Mead
B Jean Piaget
C G. Stanley Hall
D Anna Freud
Question #40
A Period so turbulent that is resembles the era in which humans evolved from savages into civilized beings
B Biologically based “developmental disturbance”
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
