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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Offers paid employment as a component of the program
B Focuses heavily on basic skills
C Focuses heavily on job-related instruction
D Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
Question #2
A Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
B Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
C Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
D Hilda, who is in a vocational track
Question #3
A Rarely are other warning signs present
B A substantial number quietly disengage from school
C Rarely do these students report a history of dissatisfaction with school
D These students are nonetheless likely to find adequate employment after leaving school
Question #4
A Close to 20 percent and rising
B Higher among boys than girls
C Especially low among Hispanic teenagers
D Particularly high among low SES Caucasian youth
Question #5
A Early-maturing boys and girls
B Late-maturing boys and girls
C Girls more often than boys
D Low- SES minority students
Question #6
A Were able to apply their learning to new weather problems
B Activated subcortical areas involved in implicit memory
C Learned more thoroughly than participants working only on the weather task
D Activated the hippocampus, which plays a vital role in explicit memory
Question #7
A Have parents who value effort
B Are less involved in extracurricular activities
C Are less academically successful
D Share those values
Question #8
A Remedial
B College preparatory
C General education
D Vocational
Question #9
A Risk factors in first grade predict dropout nearly as well as risk factors in secondary school
B The dropout rate is higher among African American teenagers than among Hispanic teenagers
C Compared with other students, dropouts are more likely to have involved parents
D Nearly all dropouts achieve poorly and show high rates of norm-violating acts
Question #10
A Using standardized testing instead of grades to determine who graduates
B Offering remedial instruction in small classes
C Requiring extracurricular involvement
D Putting students in larger classes
Question #11
A Today, fewer U.S. youths finish their high school education than 50 years ago
B Few high school dropouts return to finish there secondary education
C Over 90 percents of U.S. Youths complete high school by age 24
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 Harry believes that he will never have a car accident because he is a better driver than most people
C Benny goes to the Friday night football game with a group of friends and cheers as loud as anyone else
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 As the result of an abrupt, stage wise change
C Through rote memorization
D Through direct instruction from adults and more expert peers
Question #14
A Metacognition
B Emotional self-regulation
C Verbal ability
D Advanced spatial reasoning
Question #15
A Literature and writing
B Social Sciences
C Math and science
D Art and music
Question #16
A Appears at puberty
B Occurs gradually from childhood on
C Is found in children as young as 3
D Does appear until adulthood
Question #17
A Concrete operational
B Sensorimotor
C Proportional
D Formal operational
Question #18
A Is a normal part of adolescence and, therefore is not a cause for concern
B Is much greater among African American than among Caucasian-American youth
C Should not taken lightly because a single heavy does can lead to permanent injury or death
D is linked to depression, anxiety, and impulsive behavior
Question #19
Which of the following substances do U.S. adolescents most often experiment with during high school?
A Cocaine
B Marijuana
C Alcohol
D Cigarettes
Question #20
A Often become adolescent parents
B Fare better if the teenage parent drops out of high school
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 More often engage in child abuse
B Interact more efficiently with their infants
C Know more about child development
D Perceive their babies as less difficult
Question #22
A Teenage mothers spend more of their parenting years as single parents
B Today, about 95 percent of U.S. adolescent mothers graduate from high school
C Many teen mothers perceive their babies as less difficult
D Very few teen mothers experience pregnancy and birth complications
Question #23
A Bisexuality is a transient state
B Attraction to members of the same sex is limited to teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual
C Most homosexual adolescents are “gender-deviant” in dress and behavior
D About 50 or 60 percent of adolescents who report having engaged in homosexual acts identify as heterosexual
Question #24
A Social influences; genetic factors
B Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
C Genetic factors; authoritarian child rearing
D Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
Question #25
A Adolescent contraceptive use has decreased in recent years
B Even teenagers who report talking openly with their parents about sex are unlikely to use birth control
C About 20 percent of sexual active U.S. teenagers do not use contraception consistently
D School sex education classes prevent teenagers from having unprotected sex
Question #26
A It is usually harder to treat young people with bulimia than those with anorexia
B Bulimics are usually excellent students who are responsible and well- adjusted
C Bulimics usually feel depressed and guilty about their abnormal eating habits
D Bulimics typically deny or minimize the seriousness of their disorder
Question #27
A Half; also afflicted with bulimia nervosa
B A quarter; early-maturing youths who are anxious and prone to depression
C Half; gay or bisexual youths who are uncomfortable with a strong, muscular appearance
D Three- quarters; African-American youths who are dissatisfied with their physical characteristics
Question #28
A Although being anorexia is unhealthy, it is rarely fatal
B Anorexia nervosa is equally common in all SES groups
C About 10 percent of North American and Western European teenagers are affected
D Boys account for less than 1 percent of anorexia cases
Question #29
A School issues; the importance of education
B Everyday matters; driving,dating partners, and curfews
C Important family values; a belief in a higher power
D Moral issues; lying, stealing, and cheating
Question #30
A 19-year-old Jesse
B 16-year-old Tyler
C 14-year-old Grace
D 13-year-old Tya
Question #31
A Strongly related to situational changes
B More positive
C Less intense
D More stable
Question #32
A Are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression
B Perform better on cognitive tasks in the morning hours
C Display increases in executive function
D Are less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors
Question #33
A React more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely
B Have difficulty strong and retrieving long-term memories
C Cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion
D Become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues
Question #34
A Anabolic steroid use
B Excessive exercise
C The onset of puberty
D Sexual maturation
Question #35
A On average, the growth spurt is underway in North America around age 8 for girls and 10 for boys
B The first outward sign of puberty is menarche for girls and spermarche for boys
C Growth in body size is complete for most girls by age 16 and for boys by age 17 1/2
D In early adolescence, the typical girl is shorter and lighter than the typical boy
Question #36
A Are underway at birth
B Are unimpressive
C Are underway by age 8 or 9
D Occur suddenly
Question #37
A Briefer but less intense than
B The same length as
C Briefer but more intense than
D Much longer 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 Margaret Mead
C G. Stanley Hall
D Anna Freud
Question #40
A Biologically based “developmental disturbance”
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 Period so turbulent that is resembles the era in which humans evolved from savages into civilized beings
