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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
B Focuses heavily on basic skills
C Offers paid employment as a component of the program
D Focuses heavily on job-related instruction
Question #2
A Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
B Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
C Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
D Hilda, who is in a vocational track
Question #3
A These students are nonetheless likely to find adequate employment after leaving school
B Rarely are other warning signs present
C A substantial number quietly disengage from school
D Rarely do these students report a history of dissatisfaction with school
Question #4
A Higher among boys than girls
B Especially low among Hispanic teenagers
C Particularly high among low SES Caucasian youth
D Close to 20 percent and rising
Question #5
A Low- SES minority students
B Girls more often than boys
C Late-maturing boys and girls
D Early-maturing boys and girls
Question #6
A Activated the hippocampus, which plays a vital role in explicit memory
B Learned more thoroughly than participants working only on the weather task
C Were able to apply their learning to new weather problems
D Activated subcortical areas involved in implicit memory
Question #7
A Are less involved in extracurricular activities
B Are less academically successful
C Share those values
D Have parents who value effort
Question #8
A Remedial
B General education
C Vocational
D College preparatory
Question #9
A Nearly all dropouts achieve poorly and show high rates of norm-violating acts
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 The dropout rate is higher among African American teenagers than among Hispanic teenagers
Question #10
A Using standardized testing instead of grades to determine who graduates
B Offering remedial instruction in small classes
C Putting students in larger classes
D Requiring extracurricular involvement
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 her fork falls off her tray in the cafeteria, Hannah is certain that everyone is thinking that she is clumsy
B When riley fails to make the volleyball team. She believes that no one has ever felt as disappointed
C Benny goes to the Friday night football game with a group of friends and cheers as loud as anyone else
D Harry believes that he will never have a car accident because he is a better driver than most people
Question #13
A Through direct instruction from adults and more expert peers
B Through exposure to many experiences that require them to match theories against evidence
C Through rote memorization
D As the result of an abrupt, stage wise change
Question #14
A Verbal ability
B Advanced spatial reasoning
C Metacognition
D Emotional self-regulation
Question #15
A Literature and writing
B Social Sciences
C Art and music
D Math and science
Question #16
A Appears at puberty
B Occurs gradually from childhood on
C Does appear until adulthood
D Is found in children as young as 3
Question #17
A Sensorimotor
B Proportional
C Concrete operational
D Formal operational
Question #18
A is linked to depression, anxiety, and impulsive behavior
B Should not taken lightly because a single heavy does can lead to permanent injury or death
C Is a normal part of adolescence and, therefore is not a cause for concern
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 Marijuana
B Cocaine
C Alcohol
D Cigarettes
Question #20
A Often become adolescent parents
B Have a better chance of gradating high school than children of adult mothers
C Score higher on intelligence tests than children of adult mothers
D Fare better if the teenage parent drops out of high school
Question #21
A More often engage in child abuse
B Perceive their babies as less difficult
C Know more about child development
D Interact more efficiently with their infants
Question #22
A Teenage mothers spend more of their parenting years as single parents
B Very few teen mothers experience pregnancy and birth complications
C Today, about 95 percent of U.S. adolescent mothers graduate from high school
D Many teen mothers perceive their babies as less difficult
Question #23
A Bisexuality is a transient state
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 Attraction to members of the same sex is limited to teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual
Question #24
A Social influences; genetic factors
B Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
C Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
D Genetic factors; authoritarian child rearing
Question #25
A Even teenagers who report talking openly with their parents about sex are unlikely to use birth control
B About 20 percent of sexual active U.S. teenagers do not use contraception consistently
C Adolescent contraceptive use has decreased in recent years
D School sex education classes prevent teenagers from having unprotected sex
Question #26
A Bulimics are usually excellent students who are responsible and well- adjusted
B Bulimics usually feel depressed and guilty about their abnormal eating habits
C Bulimics typically deny or minimize the seriousness of their disorder
D It is usually harder to treat young people with bulimia than those with anorexia
Question #27
A Half; gay or bisexual youths who are uncomfortable with a strong, muscular appearance
B A quarter; early-maturing youths who are anxious and prone to depression
C Three- quarters; African-American youths who are dissatisfied with their physical characteristics
D Half; also afflicted with bulimia nervosa
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 Moral issues; lying, stealing, and cheating
C Important family values; a belief in a higher power
D Everyday matters; driving,dating partners, and curfews
Question #30
A 19-year-old Jesse
B 13-year-old Tya
C 16-year-old Tyler
D 14-year-old Grace
Question #31
A Less intense
B More stable
C More positive
D Strongly related to situational changes
Question #32
A Are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression
B Display increases in executive function
C Are less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors
D Perform better on cognitive tasks in the morning hours
Question #33
A Become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues
B React more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely
C Cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion
D Have difficulty strong and retrieving long-term memories
Question #34
A Excessive exercise
B Sexual maturation
C The onset of puberty
D Anabolic steroid use
Question #35
A The first outward sign of puberty is menarche for girls and spermarche for boys
B On average, the growth spurt is underway in North America around age 8 for girls and 10 for boys
C In early adolescence, the typical girl is shorter and lighter than the typical boy
D Growth in body size is complete for most girls by age 16 and for boys by age 17 1/2
Question #36
A Occur suddenly
B Are underway by age 8 or 9
C Are underway at birth
D Are unimpressive
Question #37
A Much longer than
B The same length as
C Briefer but less intense than
D Briefer but more intense than
Question #38
A Influenced by biological, psychological, and social forces
B Socially determined
C Environmentally determined
D Biologically determined
Question #39
A Jean Piaget
B Anna Freud
C Margaret Mead
D G. Stanley Hall
Question #40
A Period so turbulent that is resembles the era in which humans evolved from savages into civilized beings
B Pleasant time of life in which the social environment is responsible for the range of teenage experience
C Time in which teenagers grasp scientific and mathematical principles and grapple with social and political issues
D Biologically based “developmental disturbance”
