Chapter 12 Quiz

A  High academic achievement 

B  Delinquency and drug use 

C  Later relationship stability 

D  Depression

A  Peer status 

B  Affection

C  Compatibly 

D  Companionship

A  Contribute to a rise in depression

B  Often interfere with identity development 

C  Help young people deal with stress 

D  Are tightly structured and exclusive

A  Instant messaging

B  Cell-phone texting 

C  Social networking 

D  Cell calling

A  Shared attitudes and values

B  Shared interests and activities 

C  Self-disclosure 

D  Intimacy

A  More important to the teen, but more strained 

B  More intense in negative feelings

C  Less intense in both positive and negative feelings 

D  More intense in positive feelings

A  Genes can induce depression by affecting the balance of neurotransmitters in the brain

B  Heredity plays only a minor role in depression

C  Biological changes associated with puberty explain why girls are more prone to depression than boys

D  Late-maturing girls are especially prone to depressions

A  Not

B  Just

C  Twice

D  Three times

A  An identity crisis

B  Anxiety 

C  A citation C deficiency 

D  Depression

A  It is nearly impossible to prevent adolescent suicide, as teenagers rarely exhibit warning signs around adults 

B  Parents and teachers must be trained to pick up on the signals that a troubled teenager sends

C  Parents should not be concerned about teenagers’ commenting, “I wish i were dead,” because adolescents are overly dramatic

D  Gun-control legislation that restricts the availability of firearms to adolescents has little impact on suicide rates

A   Few suicidal adolescents have a family history of emotional problems 

B   Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youths are at lower risk for suicide 

C  Suicidal adolescents are likely to have experienced multiple stressful life events 

D  Highly intelligence teens rarely commit suicide

A  SES and ethnicity are strongly related to teenagers’ self reports of antisocial acts

B  Girls account for about one in three adolescent arrests for violence 

C   Teenagers tend to commit crimes in high SES neighborhoods where parents are more likely to be absent after school and in early evening

D  Families of delinquent youths tend to be low in warmth, high in conflict and characterized by harsh, inconsistent discipline and low monitoring

A  Doug, who first showed signs of physical aggression at age 3

B  David, who first displayed antisocial behavior around puberty

C  Lana who was arrested three times in high school but it is now doing well in college

D   Shonna, who was first arrested at age 15 when she fell in with the wrong crowd

A  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

B  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers daily activities

C  Have an easier time adapting to their teenagers’ push for autonomy 

D  More readily achieve a mature, harmonious relationship with their teenagers

A  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers’ daily activities 

B  More readily achieve a mature, harmonious relationship with their teenagers

C  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

D  Have an easier time adapting to their teenagers’ push for autonomy 

A  Feminine; girls

B  Androgynous; girls

C  Masculine; boys

D  Androgynous; boys

A  Everyday moral judgements are efforts to arrive at just solutions

B  Kohlberg’s stage sequence adequately accounts for morality in everyday life

C  Gilligan’s theory provides a more accurate account of moral reasoning than Kohlberg’s theory

D  Everyday moral judgements are practical tools that people use to achieve their goals

A  Is more involved in community service activities aimed at helping the less fortunate

B  Uses more alcohol, but does not use drugs

C   Is less advanced in moral reasoning

D  Engages in less misconduct, but is less academically responsible 

A  Most young people reject the idea of a “higher being”

B  Formal religious involvement tends to decline

C  Church attendance becomes a major source of parent-child conflict 

D  Formal religious involvement tends to increase

A  Inductive discipline

B  A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style

C  An authoritarian

D  A permissive child-rearing style

A  Weak

B  Strong

C  Modest

D  Very strong

A  Level of

B  Justice 

C  Private conscience

D  Other-directed

A   Peers who present differing viewpoints

B  Peers of the same ethnicity

C  Like minded peers

D  Peers of the same race

A  Timmy will say that the exclusion is acceptable under certain circumstances

B  Thom will say that the exclusion is always unfair

C  Thom will say that the exclusion is acceptable under certain circumstances

D  Timmy will say that the exclusion is always acceptable

A  The results are too inconclusive to reach consensus 

B  Most have used invalid measures

C  Measuring an “ethic’ of care” is too difficult to be reliable 

D  Most do not support her contention

A  5

B  3

C  4

D  6

A  Conventional 

B  Post-conventional

C  Universal ethnical 

D  Pre-conventional

A  Observing his own children in situations where they were tempted to something they knew was wrong

B  Using puppets to act our misbehavior and then asking children to explain why the puppet was wrong

C  Interviewing parents about how their children would behave under a variety of circumstances

D  Presenting children and adults with moral dilemmas, and asking them what the main actor should do and why

A  Bicultural identity

B  Ethnic identity 

C  Identity diffusion

D  Acculturative stress

A  Achievement 

B   Moratorium

C  Foreclosure

D   Diffusion

A  Foreclosed

B  Achieved 

C  Diffused 

D   Delayed

A  Foreclosure

B  Achievement 

C  Diffusion

D  Moratorium

A  Moratorium 

B  Diffusion

C  Foreclosure

D   Achievement 

A  Uninvolved 

B  Permissive

C  Authoritarian 

D  Authoritative

A  Fluctuates a great deal

B  Declines

C  Rises

D  Declines

A  I am usually pretty honest, but sometimes I cheat on my homework 

B  I am good athlete, I play three sports: soccer, tennis, and wrestling. It is hard to get my homework done

C  I am not all that smart. I try really hard, but i can never seem to remember all of the details for the test

D  I’m talkative around friends, who really listen to me, but at home, i clam up because no one really hears me

A  Forming an ideal self 

B  An identity crisis and a resolution 

C  Experimentation and error

D  Exploration followed by commitment 

A  Isolation

B  Inferiority

C  Role confusion 

D  Mistrust 

A  Considering a moral dilemma

B  Building his self esteem

C  Constructing his identity

D   Adopting his parents’ values as his own 

A  Intimacy

B  Trust

C  Identity 

D  Autonomy