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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 Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
D Focuses heavily on job-related instruction
Question #2
A Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
B Hilda, who is in a vocational track
C Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
D Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
Question #3
A Rarely do these students report a history of dissatisfaction with school
B These students are nonetheless likely to find adequate employment after leaving school
C A substantial number quietly disengage from school
D Rarely are other warning signs present
Question #4
A Particularly high among low SES Caucasian youth
B Higher among boys than girls
C Especially low among Hispanic teenagers
D Close to 20 percent and rising
Question #5
A Late-maturing boys and girls
B Low- SES minority students
C Early-maturing boys and girls
D Girls more often than boys
Question #6
A Activated the hippocampus, which plays a vital role in explicit memory
B Were able to apply their learning to new weather problems
C Activated subcortical areas involved in implicit memory
D Learned more thoroughly than participants working only on the weather task
Question #7
A Are less academically successful
B Share those values
C Have parents who value effort
D Are less involved in extracurricular activities
Question #8
A General education
B College preparatory
C Remedial
D Vocational
Question #9
A Compared with other students, dropouts are more likely to have involved parents
B The dropout rate is higher among African American teenagers than among Hispanic teenagers
C Risk factors in first grade predict dropout nearly as well as risk factors in secondary school
D Nearly all dropouts achieve poorly and show high rates of norm-violating acts
Question #10
A Offering remedial instruction in small classes
B Requiring extracurricular involvement
C Using standardized testing instead of grades to determine who graduates
D Putting students in larger classes
Question #11
A Over 90 percents of U.S. Youths complete high school by age 24
B High school dropouts have a much higher employment rate than high school graduates
C Few high school dropouts return to finish there secondary education
D Today, fewer U.S. youths finish their high school education than 50 years ago
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 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 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 Advanced spatial reasoning
B Emotional self-regulation
C Verbal ability
D Metacognition
Question #15
A Social Sciences
B Math and science
C Art and music
D Literature and writing
Question #16
A Is found in children as young as 3
B Occurs gradually from childhood on
C Does appear until adulthood
D Appears at puberty
Question #17
A Sensorimotor
B Proportional
C Concrete operational
D Formal operational
Question #18
A Should not taken lightly because a single heavy does can lead to permanent injury or death
B is linked to depression, anxiety, and impulsive behavior
C Is much greater among African American than among Caucasian-American youth
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 Alcohol
C Marijuana
D Cigarettes
Question #20
A Fare better if the teenage parent drops out of high school
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 Often become adolescent parents
Question #21
A More often engage in child abuse
B Interact more efficiently with their infants
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 Many teen mothers perceive their babies as less difficult
C Very few teen mothers experience pregnancy and birth complications
D Teenage mothers spend more of their parenting years as single parents
Question #23
A Most homosexual adolescents are “gender-deviant” in dress and behavior
B About 50 or 60 percent of adolescents who report having engaged in homosexual acts identify as heterosexual
C Bisexuality is a transient state
D Attraction to members of the same sex is limited to teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual
Question #24
A Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
B Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
C Social influences; genetic factors
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 School sex education classes prevent teenagers from having unprotected sex
C Adolescent contraceptive use has decreased in recent years
D About 20 percent of sexual active U.S. teenagers do not use contraception consistently
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 Three- quarters; African-American youths who are dissatisfied with their physical characteristics
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 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 About 10 percent of North American and Western European teenagers are affected
D Although being anorexia is unhealthy, it is rarely fatal
Question #29
A Important family values; a belief in a higher power
B Moral issues; lying, stealing, and cheating
C Everyday matters; driving,dating partners, and curfews
D School issues; the importance of education
Question #30
A 19-year-old Jesse
B 13-year-old Tya
C 14-year-old Grace
D 16-year-old Tyler
Question #31
A Less intense
B Strongly related to situational changes
C More stable
D More positive
Question #32
A Perform better on cognitive tasks in the morning hours
B Are less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors
C Display increases in executive function
D Are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression
Question #33
A Have difficulty strong and retrieving long-term memories
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 Become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues
Question #34
A The onset of puberty
B Excessive exercise
C Sexual maturation
D Anabolic steroid use
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 Are underway by age 8 or 9
B Occur suddenly
C Are underway at birth
D Are unimpressive
Question #37
A Briefer but less intense than
B Much longer than
C Briefer but more intense than
D The same length as
Question #38
A Biologically determined
B Socially determined
C Influenced by biological, psychological, and social forces
D Environmentally determined
Question #39
A Anna Freud
B Jean Piaget
C G. Stanley Hall
D Margaret Mead
Question #40
A Biologically based “developmental disturbance”
B Time in which teenagers grasp scientific and mathematical principles and grapple with social and political issues
C Pleasant time of life in which the social environment is responsible for the range of teenage experience
D Period so turbulent that is resembles the era in which humans evolved from savages into civilized beings
