Chapter 12 Quiz

A  Depression

B  High academic achievement 

C  Delinquency and drug use 

D  Later relationship stability 

A  Affection

B  Companionship

C  Peer status 

D  Compatibly 

A  Contribute to a rise in depression

B  Help young people deal with stress 

C  Are tightly structured and exclusive

D  Often interfere with identity development 

A  Cell calling

B  Cell-phone texting 

C  Social networking 

D  Instant messaging

A  Intimacy

B  Shared interests and activities 

C  Self-disclosure 

D  Shared attitudes and values

A  Less intense in both positive and negative feelings 

B  More important to the teen, but more strained 

C  More intense in negative feelings

D  More intense in positive feelings

A  Late-maturing girls are especially prone to depressions

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

A  Just

B  Three times

C  Not

D  Twice

A  An identity crisis

B  Depression

C  Anxiety 

D  A citation C deficiency 

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

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

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

B  Highly intelligence teens rarely commit suicide

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

D   Few suicidal adolescents have a family history of emotional problems 

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

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

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  Androgynous; girls

C  Androgynous; boys

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  Formal religious involvement tends to increase

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

D  Formal religious involvement tends to decline

A  A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style

B  An authoritarian

C  A permissive child-rearing style

D  Inductive discipline

A  Strong

B  Very strong

C  Modest

D  Weak

A  Justice 

B  Other-directed

C  Private conscience

D  Level of

A   Peers who present differing viewpoints

B  Like minded peers

C  Peers of the same ethnicity

D  Peers of the same race

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

B  Timmy will say that the exclusion is always acceptable

C  Thom will say that the exclusion is always unfair

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

A  Most have used invalid measures

B  Most do not support her contention

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

D  The results are too inconclusive to reach consensus 

A  6

B  3

C  4

D  5

A  Universal ethnical 

B  Pre-conventional

C  Conventional 

D  Post-conventional

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

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

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

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

A  Identity diffusion

B  Ethnic identity 

C  Bicultural identity

D  Acculturative stress

A   Diffusion

B  Foreclosure

C  Achievement 

D   Moratorium

A  Foreclosed

B  Achieved 

C   Delayed

D  Diffused 

A  Diffusion

B  Foreclosure

C  Moratorium

D  Achievement 

A  Moratorium 

B  Foreclosure

C  Diffusion

D   Achievement 

A  Uninvolved 

B  Permissive

C  Authoritative

D  Authoritarian 

A  Declines

B  Declines

C  Rises

D  Fluctuates a great deal

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

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

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

A  Exploration followed by commitment 

B  Experimentation and error

C  Forming an ideal self 

D  An identity crisis and a resolution 

A  Mistrust 

B  Role confusion 

C  Isolation

D  Inferiority

A   Adopting his parents’ values as his own 

B  Considering a moral dilemma

C  Constructing his identity

D  Building his self esteem

A  Trust

B  Identity 

C  Autonomy

D  Intimacy