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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 job-related instruction
C Focuses heavily on basic skills
D Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
Question #2
A Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
B Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
C Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
D Hilda, who is in a vocational track
Question #3
A Rarely are other warning signs present
B Rarely do these students report a history of dissatisfaction with school
C These students are nonetheless likely to find adequate employment after leaving school
D A substantial number quietly disengage from school
Question #4
A Especially low among Hispanic teenagers
B Particularly high among low SES Caucasian youth
C Higher among boys than girls
D Close to 20 percent and rising
Question #5
A Early-maturing boys and girls
B Girls more often than boys
C Low- SES minority students
D Late-maturing boys and girls
Question #6
A Learned more thoroughly than participants working only on the weather task
B Were able to apply their learning to new weather problems
C Activated subcortical areas involved in implicit memory
D Activated the hippocampus, which plays a vital role in explicit memory
Question #7
A Are less academically successful
B Share those values
C Are less involved in extracurricular activities
D Have parents who value effort
Question #8
A Vocational
B College preparatory
C Remedial
D General education
Question #9
A Nearly all dropouts achieve poorly and show high rates of norm-violating acts
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 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 Putting students in larger classes
C Offering remedial instruction in small classes
D Requiring extracurricular involvement
Question #11
A Today, fewer U.S. youths finish their high school education than 50 years ago
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 Over 90 percents of U.S. Youths complete high school by age 24
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 rote memorization
C Through exposure to many experiences that require them to match theories against evidence
D As the result of an abrupt, stage wise change
Question #14
A Verbal ability
B Emotional self-regulation
C Metacognition
D Advanced spatial reasoning
Question #15
A Math and science
B Literature and writing
C Art and music
D Social Sciences
Question #16
A Is found in children as young as 3
B Appears at puberty
C Occurs gradually from childhood on
D Does appear until adulthood
Question #17
A Proportional
B Formal operational
C Sensorimotor
D Concrete operational
Question #18
A Should not taken lightly because a single heavy does can lead to permanent injury or death
B Is a normal part of adolescence and, therefore is not a cause for concern
C is linked to depression, anxiety, and impulsive behavior
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 Cigarettes
B Marijuana
C Alcohol
D Cocaine
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 Know more about child development
C Interact more efficiently with their infants
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 Very few teen mothers experience pregnancy and birth complications
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 Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
B Genetic factors; authoritarian child rearing
C Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
D Social influences; genetic factors
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 usually feel depressed and guilty about their abnormal eating habits
B Bulimics are usually excellent students who are responsible and well- adjusted
C It is usually harder to treat young people with bulimia than those with anorexia
D Bulimics typically deny or minimize the seriousness of their disorder
Question #27
A Half; also afflicted with bulimia nervosa
B Three- quarters; African-American youths who are dissatisfied with their physical characteristics
C Half; gay or bisexual youths who are uncomfortable with a strong, muscular appearance
D A quarter; early-maturing youths who are anxious and prone to depression
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 Everyday matters; driving,dating partners, and curfews
B Important family values; a belief in a higher power
C School issues; the importance of education
D Moral issues; lying, stealing, and cheating
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 positive
B Strongly related to situational changes
C More stable
D Less intense
Question #32
A Are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression
B Display increases in executive function
C Perform better on cognitive tasks in the morning hours
D Are less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors
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 Sexual maturation
B Excessive exercise
C The onset of puberty
D Anabolic steroid use
Question #35
A Growth in body size is complete for most girls by age 16 and for boys by age 17 1/2
B The first outward sign of puberty is menarche for girls and spermarche for boys
C On average, the growth spurt is underway in North America around age 8 for girls and 10 for boys
D In early adolescence, the typical girl is shorter and lighter than the typical boy
Question #36
A Are underway at birth
B Are underway by age 8 or 9
C Are unimpressive
D Occur suddenly
Question #37
A Much longer than
B Briefer but more intense than
C Briefer but less intense than
D The same length as
Question #38
A Biologically determined
B Influenced by biological, psychological, and social forces
C Socially determined
D Environmentally determined
Question #39
A Margaret Mead
B G. Stanley Hall
C Jean Piaget
D Anna Freud
Question #40
A Time in which teenagers grasp scientific and mathematical principles and grapple with social and political issues
B Pleasant time of life in which the social environment is responsible for the range of teenage experience
C Period so turbulent that is resembles the era in which humans evolved from savages into civilized beings
D Biologically based “developmental disturbance”
