Chapter 12 Quiz

A  Delinquency and drug use 

B  High academic achievement 

C  Depression

D  Later relationship stability 

A  Peer status 

B  Compatibly 

C  Companionship

D  Affection

A  Contribute to a rise in depression

B  Help young people deal with stress 

C  Often interfere with identity development 

D  Are tightly structured and exclusive

A  Social networking 

B  Instant messaging

C  Cell-phone texting 

D  Cell calling

A  Self-disclosure 

B  Shared interests and activities 

C  Shared attitudes and values

D  Intimacy

A  More intense in positive feelings

B  More intense in negative feelings

C  More important to the teen, but more strained 

D  Less intense in both positive and negative 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  Three times

B  Just

C  Twice

D  Not

A  A citation C deficiency 

B  Depression

C  Anxiety 

D  An identity crisis

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

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

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

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

A   Few suicidal adolescents have a family history of emotional problems 

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

C  Highly intelligence teens rarely commit suicide

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D  David, who first displayed antisocial behavior around puberty

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

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

C  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

D  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers daily activities

A  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers’ daily activities 

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

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

D  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

A  Masculine; boys

B  Feminine; girls

C  Androgynous; boys

D  Androgynous; girls

A  Everyday moral judgements are efforts to arrive at just solutions

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

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

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

A   Is less advanced in moral reasoning

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

C  Engages in less misconduct, but is less academically responsible 

D  Uses more alcohol, but does not use drugs

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

B  Formal religious involvement tends to increase

C  Formal religious involvement tends to decline

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

A  A permissive child-rearing style

B  A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style

C  Inductive discipline

D  An authoritarian

A  Strong

B  Weak

C  Very strong

D  Modest

A  Private conscience

B  Level of

C  Justice 

D  Other-directed

A  Peers of the same race

B  Peers of the same ethnicity

C   Peers who present differing viewpoints

D  Like minded peers

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

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

C  Thom will say that the exclusion is always unfair

D  Timmy will say that the exclusion is always acceptable

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

B  Most do not support her contention

C  Most have used invalid measures

D  The results are too inconclusive to reach consensus 

A  4

B  3

C  5

D  6

A  Post-conventional

B  Conventional 

C  Pre-conventional

D  Universal ethnical 

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

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

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

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

A  Bicultural identity

B  Acculturative stress

C  Ethnic identity 

D  Identity diffusion

A   Diffusion

B  Foreclosure

C   Moratorium

D  Achievement 

A   Delayed

B  Foreclosed

C  Achieved 

D  Diffused 

A  Foreclosure

B  Diffusion

C  Moratorium

D  Achievement 

A  Diffusion

B   Achievement 

C  Foreclosure

D  Moratorium 

A  Authoritative

B  Permissive

C  Authoritarian 

D  Uninvolved 

A  Fluctuates a great deal

B  Rises

C  Declines

D  Declines

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

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

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

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

A  Exploration followed by commitment 

B  Forming an ideal self 

C  Experimentation and error

D  An identity crisis and a resolution 

A  Isolation

B  Mistrust 

C  Role confusion 

D  Inferiority

A  Considering a moral dilemma

B   Adopting his parents’ values as his own 

C  Building his self esteem

D  Constructing his identity

A  Intimacy

B  Autonomy

C  Identity 

D  Trust