Chapter 12 Quiz

A  Depression

B  Delinquency and drug use 

C  Later relationship stability 

D  High academic achievement 

A  Affection

B  Compatibly 

C  Peer status 

D  Companionship

A  Help young people deal with stress 

B  Often interfere with identity development 

C  Are tightly structured and exclusive

D  Contribute to a rise in depression

A  Cell-phone texting 

B  Instant messaging

C  Cell calling

D  Social networking 

A  Shared interests and activities 

B  Shared attitudes and values

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  Heredity plays only a minor role in depression

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

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  Twice

B  Three times

C  Just

D  Not

A  Anxiety 

B  Depression

C  A citation C deficiency 

D  An identity crisis

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

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

A  Highly intelligence teens rarely commit suicide

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

C   Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youths are at lower risk for 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   Teenagers tend to commit crimes in high SES neighborhoods where parents are more likely to be absent after school and in early evening

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

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

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

C  David, who first displayed antisocial behavior around puberty

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

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

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

C  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

D  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers daily activities

A  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

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

C  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers’ daily activities 

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

A  Feminine; girls

B  Masculine; boys

C  Androgynous; girls

D  Androgynous; boys

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

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

C  Everyday moral judgements are efforts to arrive at just solutions

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  Uses more alcohol, but does not use drugs

D  Engages in less misconduct, but is less academically responsible 

A  Formal religious involvement tends to increase

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

C  Formal religious involvement tends to decline

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

A  A permissive child-rearing style

B  A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style

C  An authoritarian

D  Inductive discipline

A  Modest

B  Weak

C  Strong

D  Very strong

A  Private conscience

B  Level of

C  Justice 

D  Other-directed

A  Peers of the same ethnicity

B  Peers of the same race

C   Peers who present differing viewpoints

D  Like minded peers

A  Thom will say that the exclusion is always unfair

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

C  Timmy will say that the exclusion is always acceptable

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

A  Most have used invalid measures

B  The results are too inconclusive to reach consensus 

C  Most do not support her contention

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

A  5

B  3

C  4

D  6

A  Post-conventional

B  Conventional 

C  Universal ethnical 

D  Pre-conventional

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

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

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

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

A  Acculturative stress

B  Ethnic identity 

C  Bicultural identity

D  Identity diffusion

A  Achievement 

B  Foreclosure

C   Moratorium

D   Diffusion

A  Achieved 

B   Delayed

C  Diffused 

D  Foreclosed

A  Diffusion

B  Achievement 

C  Foreclosure

D  Moratorium

A  Diffusion

B  Foreclosure

C  Moratorium 

D   Achievement 

A  Permissive

B  Authoritative

C  Authoritarian 

D  Uninvolved 

A  Rises

B  Fluctuates a great deal

C  Declines

D  Declines

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

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

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  An identity crisis and a resolution 

B  Exploration followed by commitment 

C  Forming an ideal self 

D  Experimentation and error

A  Isolation

B  Role confusion 

C  Inferiority

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  Identity 

C  Autonomy

D  Trust