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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 Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
C Focuses heavily on basic skills
D Focuses heavily on job-related instruction
Question #2
A Hilda, who is in a vocational track
B Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
C Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
D Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
Question #3
A Rarely are other warning signs present
B Rarely do these students report a history of dissatisfaction with school
C A substantial number quietly disengage from school
D These students are nonetheless likely to find adequate employment after leaving school
Question #4
A Higher among boys than girls
B Especially low among Hispanic teenagers
C Close to 20 percent and rising
D Particularly high among low SES Caucasian youth
Question #5
A Late-maturing boys and girls
B Girls more often than boys
C Low- SES minority students
D Early-maturing boys and girls
Question #6
A Activated subcortical areas involved in implicit memory
B Learned more thoroughly than participants working only on the weather task
C Activated the hippocampus, which plays a vital role in explicit memory
D Were able to apply their learning to new weather problems
Question #7
A Have parents who value effort
B Share those values
C Are less academically successful
D Are less involved in extracurricular activities
Question #8
A Vocational
B Remedial
C General education
D College preparatory
Question #9
A The dropout rate is higher among African American teenagers than among Hispanic teenagers
B Risk factors in first grade predict dropout nearly as well as risk factors in secondary school
C Nearly all dropouts achieve poorly and show high rates of norm-violating acts
D Compared with other students, dropouts are more likely to have involved parents
Question #10
A Putting students in larger classes
B Requiring extracurricular involvement
C Offering remedial instruction in small classes
D Using standardized testing instead of grades to determine who graduates
Question #11
A Today, fewer U.S. youths finish their high school education than 50 years ago
B Over 90 percents of U.S. Youths complete high school by age 24
C High school dropouts have a much higher employment rate than high school graduates
D Few high school dropouts return to finish there secondary education
Question #12
A When riley fails to make the volleyball team. She believes that no one has ever felt as disappointed
B When her fork falls off her tray in the cafeteria, Hannah is certain that everyone is thinking that she is clumsy
C Harry believes that he will never have a car accident because he is a better driver than most people
D Benny goes to the Friday night football game with a group of friends and cheers as loud as anyone else
Question #13
A Through exposure to many experiences that require them to match theories against evidence
B Through rote memorization
C Through direct instruction from adults and more expert peers
D As the result of an abrupt, stage wise change
Question #14
A Verbal ability
B Metacognition
C Advanced spatial reasoning
D Emotional self-regulation
Question #15
A Literature and writing
B Art and music
C Social Sciences
D Math and science
Question #16
A Is found in children as young as 3
B Does appear until adulthood
C Occurs gradually from childhood on
D Appears at puberty
Question #17
A Concrete operational
B Sensorimotor
C Formal operational
D Proportional
Question #18
A Is much greater among African American than among Caucasian-American youth
B is linked to depression, anxiety, and impulsive behavior
C Should not taken lightly because a single heavy does can lead to permanent injury or death
D Is a normal part of adolescence and, therefore is not a cause for concern
Question #19
Which of the following substances do U.S. adolescents most often experiment with during high school?
A Cocaine
B Marijuana
C Cigarettes
D Alcohol
Question #20
A Score higher on intelligence tests than children of adult mothers
B Have a better chance of gradating high school than children of adult mothers
C Often become adolescent parents
D Fare better if the teenage parent drops out of high school
Question #21
A Perceive their babies as less difficult
B Interact more efficiently with their infants
C More often engage in child abuse
D Know more about child development
Question #22
A Today, about 95 percent of U.S. adolescent mothers graduate from high school
B Many teen mothers perceive their babies as less difficult
C Teenage mothers spend more of their parenting years as single parents
D Very few teen mothers experience pregnancy and birth complications
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 Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
B Social influences; genetic factors
C Genetic factors; authoritarian child rearing
D Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
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 typically deny or minimize the seriousness of their disorder
B Bulimics usually feel depressed and guilty about their abnormal eating habits
C Bulimics are usually excellent students who are responsible and well- adjusted
D It is usually harder to treat young people with bulimia than those with anorexia
Question #27
A Half; also afflicted with bulimia nervosa
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; gay or bisexual youths who are uncomfortable with a strong, muscular appearance
Question #28
A Although being anorexia is unhealthy, it is rarely fatal
B Boys account for less than 1 percent of anorexia cases
C Anorexia nervosa is equally common in all SES groups
D About 10 percent of North American and Western European teenagers are affected
Question #29
A Moral issues; lying, stealing, and cheating
B Everyday matters; driving,dating partners, and curfews
C School issues; the importance of education
D Important family values; a belief in a higher power
Question #30
A 13-year-old Tya
B 16-year-old Tyler
C 19-year-old Jesse
D 14-year-old Grace
Question #31
A More stable
B Strongly related to situational changes
C Less intense
D More positive
Question #32
A Are less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors
B Are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression
C Perform better on cognitive tasks in the morning hours
D Display increases in executive function
Question #33
A Become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues
B Have difficulty strong and retrieving long-term memories
C React more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely
D Cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion
Question #34
A The onset of puberty
B Excessive exercise
C Sexual maturation
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 Are underway by age 8 or 9
B Occur suddenly
C Are unimpressive
D Are underway at birth
Question #37
A Briefer but more intense than
B Briefer but less intense than
C Much longer than
D The same length as
Question #38
A Influenced by biological, psychological, and social forces
B Environmentally determined
C Socially determined
D Biologically determined
Question #39
A Margaret Mead
B Jean Piaget
C Anna Freud
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 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
