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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Carefully integrates academic and job-related instruction
B Focuses heavily on basic skills
C Offers paid employment as a component of the program
D Focuses heavily on job-related instruction
Question #2
A Hilda, who is in a vocational track
B Linda, who is in a college preparatory track
C Dwayne, who receives personalized remedial instruction
D Dustin, who takes high-pressure advanced placement classes
Question #3
A These students are nonetheless likely to find adequate employment after leaving school
B Rarely are other warning signs present
C A substantial number quietly disengage from school
D Rarely do these students report a history of dissatisfaction with school
Question #4
A Close to 20 percent and rising
B Higher among boys than girls
C Particularly high among low SES Caucasian youth
D Especially low among Hispanic teenagers
Question #5
A Girls more often than boys
B Low- SES minority students
C Late-maturing boys and girls
D Early-maturing boys and girls
Question #6
A Were able to apply their learning to new weather problems
B Activated the hippocampus, which plays a vital role in explicit memory
C Learned more thoroughly than participants working only on the weather task
D Activated subcortical areas involved in implicit memory
Question #7
A Are less involved in extracurricular activities
B Are less academically successful
C Have parents who value effort
D Share those values
Question #8
A General education
B Vocational
C College preparatory
D Remedial
Question #9
A Compared with other students, dropouts are more likely to have involved parents
B Risk factors in first grade predict dropout nearly as well as risk factors in secondary school
C Nearly all dropouts achieve poorly and show high rates of norm-violating acts
D The dropout rate is higher among African American teenagers than among Hispanic teenagers
Question #10
A Putting students in larger classes
B Offering remedial instruction in small classes
C Using standardized testing instead of grades to determine who graduates
D Requiring extracurricular involvement
Question #11
A High school dropouts have a much higher employment rate than high school graduates
B Today, fewer U.S. youths finish their high school education than 50 years ago
C Few high school dropouts return to finish there secondary education
D Over 90 percents of U.S. Youths complete high school by age 24
Question #12
A Benny goes to the Friday night football game with a group of friends and cheers as loud as anyone else
B Harry believes that he will never have a car accident because he is a better driver than most people
C When riley fails to make the volleyball team. She believes that no one has ever felt as disappointed
D When her fork falls off her tray in the cafeteria, Hannah is certain that everyone is thinking that she is clumsy
Question #13
A Through exposure to many experiences that require them to match theories against evidence
B Through rote memorization
C Through direct instruction from adults and more expert peers
D As the result of an abrupt, stage wise change
Question #14
A Advanced spatial reasoning
B Metacognition
C Verbal ability
D Emotional self-regulation
Question #15
A Literature and writing
B Art and music
C Math and science
D Social Sciences
Question #16
A Does appear until adulthood
B Occurs gradually from childhood on
C Is found in children as young as 3
D Appears at puberty
Question #17
A Sensorimotor
B Proportional
C Formal operational
D Concrete operational
Question #18
A is linked to depression, anxiety, and impulsive behavior
B Should not taken lightly because a single heavy does can lead to permanent injury or death
C Is a normal part of adolescence and, therefore is not a cause for concern
D Is much greater among African American than among Caucasian-American youth
Question #19
Which of the following substances do U.S. adolescents most often experiment with during high school?
A Marijuana
B Alcohol
C Cocaine
D Cigarettes
Question #20
A Have a better chance of gradating high school than children of adult mothers
B Often become adolescent parents
C Score higher on intelligence tests than children of adult mothers
D Fare better if the teenage parent drops out of high school
Question #21
A Perceive their babies as less difficult
B Interact more efficiently with their infants
C Know more about child development
D More often engage in child abuse
Question #22
A Teenage mothers spend more of their parenting years as single parents
B Many teen mothers perceive their babies as less difficult
C Very few teen mothers experience pregnancy and birth complications
D Today, about 95 percent of U.S. adolescent mothers graduate from high school
Question #23
A Attraction to members of the same sex is limited to teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual
B About 50 or 60 percent of adolescents who report having engaged in homosexual acts identify as heterosexual
C Bisexuality is a transient state
D Most homosexual adolescents are “gender-deviant” in dress and behavior
Question #24
A Personal choice; prenatal biological influences
B Genetic factors; authoritarian child rearing
C Social influences; genetic factors
D Genetic factors; prenatal biological influences
Question #25
A School sex education classes prevent teenagers from having unprotected sex
B About 20 percent of sexual active U.S. teenagers do not use contraception consistently
C Even teenagers who report talking openly with their parents about sex are unlikely to use birth control
D Adolescent contraceptive use has decreased in recent years
Question #26
A Bulimics usually feel depressed and guilty about their abnormal eating habits
B Bulimics typically deny or minimize the seriousness of their disorder
C Bulimics are usually excellent students who are responsible and well- adjusted
D It is usually harder to treat young people with bulimia than those with anorexia
Question #27
A Three- quarters; African-American youths who are dissatisfied with their physical characteristics
B A quarter; early-maturing youths who are anxious and prone to depression
C Half; also afflicted with bulimia nervosa
D Half; gay or bisexual youths who are uncomfortable with a strong, muscular appearance
Question #28
A About 10 percent of North American and Western European teenagers are affected
B Although being anorexia is unhealthy, it is rarely fatal
C Anorexia nervosa is equally common in all SES groups
D Boys account for less than 1 percent of anorexia cases
Question #29
A Important family values; a belief in a higher power
B Moral issues; lying, stealing, and cheating
C Everyday matters; driving,dating partners, and curfews
D School issues; the importance of education
Question #30
A 16-year-old Tyler
B 13-year-old Tya
C 14-year-old Grace
D 19-year-old Jesse
Question #31
A More stable
B Strongly related to situational changes
C More positive
D Less intense
Question #32
A Perform better on cognitive tasks in the morning hours
B Display increases in executive function
C Are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression
D Are less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors
Question #33
A React more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely
B Have difficulty strong and retrieving long-term memories
C Cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion
D Become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues
Question #34
A Anabolic steroid use
B Sexual maturation
C Excessive exercise
D The onset of puberty
Question #35
A In early adolescence, the typical girl is shorter and lighter than the typical boy
B The first outward sign of puberty is menarche for girls and spermarche for boys
C On average, the growth spurt is underway in North America around age 8 for girls and 10 for boys
D Growth in body size is complete for most girls by age 16 and for boys by age 17 1/2
Question #36
A Are unimpressive
B Are underway by age 8 or 9
C Are underway at birth
D Occur suddenly
Question #37
A Briefer but less intense than
B Much longer than
C The same length as
D Briefer but more intense than
Question #38
A Biologically determined
B Environmentally determined
C Socially determined
D Influenced by biological, psychological, and social forces
Question #39
A Jean Piaget
B G. Stanley Hall
C Anna Freud
D Margaret Mead
Question #40
A Period so turbulent that is resembles the era in which humans evolved from savages into civilized beings
B Biologically based “developmental disturbance”
C Pleasant time of life in which the social environment is responsible for the range of teenage experience
D Time in which teenagers grasp scientific and mathematical principles and grapple with social and political issues
