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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Focuses heavily on job-related instruction
B Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
C Focuses heavily on basic skills
D Offers paid employment as a component of the program
Question #2
A Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
B Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
C Hilda, who is in a vocational track
D Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
Question #3
A Rarely do these students report a history of dissatisfaction with school
B Rarely are other warning signs present
C A substantial number quietly disengage from school
D These students are nonetheless likely to find adequate employment after leaving school
Question #4
A Especially low among Hispanic teenagers
B Higher among boys than girls
C Close to 20 percent and rising
D Particularly high among low SES Caucasian youth
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 Activated subcortical areas involved in implicit 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 the hippocampus, which plays a vital role in explicit memory
Question #7
A Are less involved in extracurricular activities
B Have parents who value effort
C Share those values
D Are less academically successful
Question #8
A College preparatory
B Remedial
C General education
D Vocational
Question #9
A The dropout rate is higher among African American teenagers than among Hispanic teenagers
B Compared with other students, dropouts are more likely to have involved parents
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 Using standardized testing instead of grades to determine who graduates
B Requiring extracurricular involvement
C Putting students in larger classes
D Offering remedial instruction in small 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 her fork falls off her tray in the cafeteria, Hannah is certain that everyone is thinking that she is clumsy
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 riley fails to make the volleyball team. She believes that no one has ever felt as disappointed
Question #13
A As the result of an abrupt, stage wise change
B Through exposure to many experiences that require them to match theories against evidence
C Through direct instruction from adults and more expert peers
D Through rote memorization
Question #14
A Advanced spatial reasoning
B Verbal ability
C Metacognition
D Emotional self-regulation
Question #15
A Art and music
B Social Sciences
C Math and science
D Literature and writing
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 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 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 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 Interact more efficiently with their infants
B More often engage in child abuse
C Know more about child development
D Perceive their babies as less difficult
Question #22
A Very few teen mothers experience pregnancy and birth complications
B Teenage mothers spend more of their parenting years as single parents
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 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 Bisexuality is a transient state
D About 50 or 60 percent of adolescents who report having engaged in homosexual acts identify as heterosexual
Question #24
A Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
B Genetic factors; authoritarian child rearing
C Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
D Social influences; genetic factors
Question #25
A About 20 percent of sexual active U.S. teenagers do not use contraception consistently
B Even teenagers who report talking openly with their parents about sex are unlikely to use birth control
C Adolescent contraceptive use has decreased in recent years
D School sex education classes prevent teenagers from having unprotected sex
Question #26
A Bulimics usually feel depressed and guilty about their abnormal eating habits
B It is usually harder to treat young people with bulimia than those with anorexia
C Bulimics are usually excellent students who are responsible and well- adjusted
D Bulimics typically deny or minimize the seriousness of their disorder
Question #27
A A quarter; early-maturing youths who are anxious and prone to depression
B Three- quarters; African-American youths who are dissatisfied with their physical characteristics
C Half; also afflicted with bulimia nervosa
D Half; gay or bisexual youths who are uncomfortable with a strong, muscular appearance
Question #28
A About 10 percent of North American and Western European teenagers are affected
B Anorexia nervosa is equally common in all SES groups
C Boys account for less than 1 percent of anorexia cases
D Although being anorexia is unhealthy, it is rarely fatal
Question #29
A Everyday matters; driving,dating partners, and curfews
B Moral issues; lying, stealing, and cheating
C Important family values; a belief in a higher power
D School issues; the importance of education
Question #30
A 19-year-old Jesse
B 16-year-old Tyler
C 13-year-old Tya
D 14-year-old Grace
Question #31
A More stable
B Strongly related to situational changes
C More positive
D Less intense
Question #32
A Are less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors
B Display increases in executive function
C Perform better on cognitive tasks in the morning hours
D Are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression
Question #33
A Become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues
B Have difficulty strong and retrieving long-term memories
C Cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion
D React more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely
Question #34
A Excessive exercise
B Sexual maturation
C The onset of puberty
D Anabolic steroid use
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 Occur suddenly
C Are unimpressive
D Are underway by age 8 or 9
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 Socially determined
B Biologically determined
C Environmentally determined
D Influenced by biological, psychological, and social forces
Question #39
A G. Stanley Hall
B Jean Piaget
C Anna Freud
D Margaret Mead
Question #40
A Time in which teenagers grasp scientific and mathematical principles and grapple with social and political issues
B Biologically based “developmental disturbance”
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
