Chapter 12 Quiz

A  Depression

B  Later relationship stability 

C  High academic achievement 

D  Delinquency and drug use 

A  Companionship

B  Compatibly 

C  Affection

D  Peer status 

A  Help young people deal with stress 

B  Contribute to a rise in depression

C  Are tightly structured and exclusive

D  Often interfere with identity development 

A  Instant messaging

B  Cell-phone texting 

C  Social networking 

D  Cell calling

A  Shared attitudes and values

B  Shared interests and activities 

C  Intimacy

D  Self-disclosure 

A  Less intense in both positive and negative feelings 

B  More intense in negative feelings

C  More intense in positive feelings

D  More important to the teen, but more strained 

A  Late-maturing girls are especially prone to depressions

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

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

D  Heredity plays only a minor role in depression

A  Not

B  Twice

C  Just

D  Three times

A  A citation C deficiency 

B  Anxiety 

C  An identity crisis

D  Depression

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

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

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

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

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

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

C  Highly intelligence teens rarely commit suicide

D   Few suicidal adolescents have a family history of emotional problems 

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

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

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

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

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

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

C  David, who first displayed antisocial behavior around puberty

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

A  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

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

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

D  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers daily activities

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  Feminine; girls

B  Androgynous; boys

C  Androgynous; girls

D  Masculine; boys

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

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

C  Everyday moral judgements are efforts to arrive at just solutions

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

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

B   Is less advanced in moral reasoning

C  Engages in less misconduct, but is less academically responsible 

D  Uses more alcohol, but does not use drugs

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

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

C  Formal religious involvement tends to decline

D  Formal religious involvement tends to increase

A  Inductive discipline

B  A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style

C  A permissive child-rearing style

D  An authoritarian

A  Very strong

B  Strong

C  Weak

D  Modest

A  Justice 

B  Level of

C  Other-directed

D  Private conscience

A  Peers of the same ethnicity

B  Like minded peers

C  Peers of the same race

D   Peers who present differing viewpoints

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

B  Timmy will say that the exclusion is always acceptable

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

D  Thom will say that the exclusion is always unfair

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  5

B  4

C  3

D  6

A  Pre-conventional

B  Conventional 

C  Universal ethnical 

D  Post-conventional

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

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

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

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

A  Bicultural identity

B  Ethnic identity 

C  Acculturative stress

D  Identity diffusion

A  Foreclosure

B   Diffusion

C   Moratorium

D  Achievement 

A  Achieved 

B  Foreclosed

C  Diffused 

D   Delayed

A  Achievement 

B  Moratorium

C  Foreclosure

D  Diffusion

A   Achievement 

B  Diffusion

C  Foreclosure

D  Moratorium 

A  Permissive

B  Authoritarian 

C  Authoritative

D  Uninvolved 

A  Declines

B  Rises

C  Fluctuates a great deal

D  Declines

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

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

A  Forming an ideal self 

B  An identity crisis and a resolution 

C  Experimentation and error

D  Exploration followed by commitment 

A  Inferiority

B  Mistrust 

C  Role confusion 

D  Isolation

A  Considering a moral dilemma

B   Adopting his parents’ values as his own 

C  Building his self esteem

D  Constructing his identity

A  Trust

B  Autonomy

C  Identity 

D  Intimacy