Chapter 12 Quiz

A  Delinquency and drug use 

B  High academic achievement 

C  Later relationship stability 

D  Depression

A  Companionship

B  Peer status 

C  Compatibly 

D  Affection

A  Often interfere with identity development 

B  Contribute to a rise in depression

C  Help young people deal with stress 

D  Are tightly structured and exclusive

A  Instant messaging

B  Cell-phone texting 

C  Cell calling

D  Social networking 

A  Self-disclosure 

B  Intimacy

C  Shared interests and activities 

D  Shared attitudes and values

A  More intense in positive feelings

B  Less intense in both positive and negative feelings 

C  More intense in negative 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  Heredity plays only a minor role in depression

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

A  Twice

B  Not

C  Three times

D  Just

A  Depression

B  An identity crisis

C  A citation C deficiency 

D  Anxiety 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D  David, who first displayed antisocial behavior around puberty

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

B  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

C  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers daily activities

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

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

B  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers’ daily activities 

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; boys

C  Masculine; boys

D  Androgynous; girls

A  Everyday moral judgements are efforts to arrive at just solutions

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

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

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  Engages in less misconduct, but is less academically responsible 

C   Is less advanced in moral reasoning

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

D  Formal religious involvement tends to decline

A  An authoritarian

B  A permissive child-rearing style

C  Inductive discipline

D  A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style

A  Strong

B  Weak

C  Modest

D  Very strong

A  Other-directed

B  Level of

C  Private conscience

D  Justice 

A  Peers of the same race

B  Peers of the same ethnicity

C  Like minded peers

D   Peers who present differing viewpoints

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

B  Thom will say that the exclusion is always unfair

C  Timmy will say that the exclusion is always acceptable

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

A  Most have used invalid measures

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

C  The results are too inconclusive to reach consensus 

D  Most do not support her contention

A  6

B  5

C  3

D  4

A  Universal ethnical 

B  Conventional 

C  Post-conventional

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  Identity diffusion

B  Bicultural identity

C  Acculturative stress

D  Ethnic identity 

A   Moratorium

B  Achievement 

C  Foreclosure

D   Diffusion

A   Delayed

B  Diffused 

C  Foreclosed

D  Achieved 

A  Moratorium

B  Achievement 

C  Foreclosure

D  Diffusion

A   Achievement 

B  Diffusion

C  Foreclosure

D  Moratorium 

A  Permissive

B  Uninvolved 

C  Authoritarian 

D  Authoritative

A  Declines

B  Declines

C  Fluctuates a great deal

D  Rises

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

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

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

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

A  An identity crisis and a resolution 

B  Forming an ideal self 

C  Experimentation and error

D  Exploration followed by commitment 

A  Inferiority

B  Isolation

C  Role confusion 

D  Mistrust 

A  Building his self esteem

B  Constructing his identity

C   Adopting his parents’ values as his own 

D  Considering a moral dilemma

A  Intimacy

B  Autonomy

C  Identity 

D  Trust