Quiz 6

A  men more than women.

B  women more than older men but less than younger men.

C  women more than men.

D  men and women equally.

A  diversity and difference.

B  prejudice and poverty.

C  the lack of clear rites of passage.

D  hostility and assimilation.

A  Phospholipids

B  Hormones

C  Neurotransmitters

D  Carbohydrates

A  suicide; alcohol

B  homicide; gang activity

C  unintentional injuries; motor vehicle accidents

D  a chronic disease; cancer

A  Adolescents seldom engage in media multitasking.

B  Media use jumps more than 3 hours in early adolescence.

C  Eight- to eleven-year-olds used media an average of 8 hours and 40 minutes a day.

D  The largest increases in media use in early adolescence involved listening to music.

A  foreclosure

B  exploration

C  commitment

D  moratorium

A  motor vehicle accidents.

B  homicide.

C  firearms.

D  sports-related injuries.

A  declining gross motor development during late childhood due to the maturation of the temporal and parietal lobes.

B  declining abstract thought and emotional maturation during late adolescence involving neural and synaptic development in the brain.

C  rapid psychological and emotional maturation that lasts through adolescence and is a product of enhanced cognitive development.

D  rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that occur primarily during early adolescence.

A  cease to emphasize educational success.

B  have family dinners most nights of the week.

C  engage in less parental monitoring and control.

D  discourage his son from making more friends at school.

A  peer-related problems.

B  career choice dilemmas.

C  juvenile delinquency.

D  family problems.

A  text messaging

B  e-mail

C  phone calls

D  instant messaging

A  enrolling the students only in a community-based education and reducing parental monitoring

B  providing early intervention for reading problems, tutoring, counseling, and mentoring

C  using rotation model for the students in high school

D  facilitating and emphasizing peer learning

A  undergo normal pubertal changes.

B  be depressed and show extreme behavior.

C  develop abnormal female physical characteristics.

D  develop abnormal male physical characteristics.

A  older adolescents tend to be sleepier during the day than younger adolescents.

B  early school starting times are conducive to the sleep patterns of older adolescents but not to those of younger adolescents.

C  adolescents being sleepy during the day was a result of academic work and social pressures.

D  when given the opportunity, adolescents will sleep an average of 7 hours a night.

A  identity achievement

B  identity moratorium

C  identity foreclosure

D  identity diffusion

A  60

B  20

C  40

D  100

A  84

B  56

C  75

D  68

A  unresolved identity

B  identity moratorium

C  identity diffusion

D  identity confusion

A  higher than average height

B  higher than average body weight

C  a constant need to consume food

D  a distorted image of their body shape

A  crisis

B  conscientiousness

C  calling

D  commitment

A  multiplicative

B  monocultural

C  bicultural

D  additive

A  identity

B  awareness

C  pride

D  gloss

A  sizeable decline.

B  insignificant change.

C  significant increase.

D  mild increase.

A  in high-income areas of the suburbs.

B  among Asian American adolescents.

C  among adolescents in the 13- to 15-year age group.

D  in low-income areas of inner cities.

A  Jean Piaget

B  G. Stanley Hall

C  Anna Freud

D  Daniel Offer

A  childhood

B  early to middle adolescent years

C  emerging adulthood

D  late adulthood

A  Switzerland

B  the United States

C  the United Kingdom

D  Japan

A  autonomy versus shame and doubt

B  intimacy versus isolation

C  identity versus identity confusion

D  initiative versus guilt