1) Tony and Jeff, both Black adolescents, attend different schools. Tony attends a school
where his ethnic group is in the majority and Jeff attends a predominately White school.
What do studies predict about Tony and/or Jeff’s self-perception?
A.Tony will have fewer self-image problems than Jeff.
B.Tony will have more self-image problems than Jeff.
C.Both Tony and Jeff will have high self-esteem.
D.Both Tony and Jeff will have low self-esteem.
2) Which of the following Supreme Court cases demonstrated the Court’s belief that
adolescents may be less blameworthy than adults?
A.Roper v. Simmons
B.Hodgson v. Minnesota
C.Board of Education v. Mergens
D.Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
3) Research studies have generally indicated that the extent to which parents grant their
children autonomy depends on the constellation of sons and daughters in the home and:
A.their children’s IQ.
B.the family’s financial situation.
C.parents’ attitudes toward sex roles.
D.whether the home is a single-parent family.
4) According to a survey conducted in the early 2000s, how do adolescents spend most
of their leisure time?
A.in passive activities
B.on the computer
C.in physical activities
D.in intellectual activities
5) Nadia is an early-maturing girl. Compared to her late-maturing peers, which of the
following statements is most likely to be true for Nadia?
A.Nadia is less likely to suffer from social anxiety.
B.Nadia is less likely to be popular with girls.
C.Nadia is more likely to be popular with the boys.
D.Nadia is less likely to be the victim of rumors and gossip.
6) When is delinquency most common?
A.weekdays during school hours
B.weekday afternoons
C.weekend nights
D.weekend afternoons
7) Depression has which of the following types of symptoms?
A.motivational
B.cognitive
C.physicals
D.Depression can be manifested in all of these symptoms.
8) Which substance is most commonly used and abused by adolescents?
A.alcohol
B.marijuana
C.nicotine
D.cocaine
9) Individuals who reason at higher levels of moral thought are thought to:
A.be less likely to commit antisocial acts.
B.less likely to cheat.
C.to be more tolerant.
D.All of the above responses are true.
10) Emma is dancing to her favorite song on the radio when her electronic pager goes
off. Emma proceeds to pull out a notebook and record her current emotional state. This
type of data collection is called:
A.ethnography.
B.participant observation.
C.Experience Sampling Method.
D. demography.
11) What may explain the results from the studies that have relocated adolescents from
poor neighborhoods to more advantaged neighborhoods?
A.Adolescents may encounter more discrimination in the new neighborhood.
B.Parents of adolescents in more advantaged neighborhoods may monitor their children
more vigilantly.
C.Adolescents who moved to a new neighborhood may end up feeling less
disadvantaged.
D. More advantaged neighborhoods allow access to more resources than the poor
neighborhoods do.
12) According to the textbook, when compared to their less mature peers, adolescents
who are physically mature are:
A.less likely to have problems with their parents.
B.more likely to be involved in cross-sex activities such as going out on dates.
C.more likely to have platonic relationships with opposite sex peers.
D.less likely to be depressed.
13) What do researchers believe explains why some individuals who engage in
precocious, promiscuous, or unprotected sex are also highly likely to engage in other
types of delinquent behavior?
A.It is likely that risky sexual behavior causes other types of risky and delinquent
behaviors.
B.It is likely that risky and delinquent behaviors cause risky sexual activity.
C.It is likely that risky sexual behavior and other types of risky behavior are both
symptoms of a certain personality profile which makes individuals more likely to
behave risky in general.
D.These two behaviors are likely spuriously related by a third, unrelated (and
unmeasured) variable.
14) Corrina is concerned because she learned that her 13-year-old son, Henry, and her
17-year-old son, Hector, were caught drinking. Are either of these teenagers likely to
become addicted to alcohol?
A.Yes, Hector is likely to be addicted to alcohol as an adult.
B.Yes, Henry is likely to be addicted to alcohol as an adult.
C.Both boys will be addicted and continue drug use into adulthood.
D.Neither boy; these are both cases of adolescent experimentation.
15) Which of the following is not a way that an individual’s grades are related their
peers’ grades?
A.Students with best friends who achieve high grades in school are more likely to show
improvements in their own grades than are students who begin at similar levels of
achievement but whose friends are not high achievers.
B.When adolescents’ grades improve, they tend to befriend more high-achieving
classmates.
C.When adolescents’ grades drop, they tend to befriend lower-achieving classmates.
D.All of these are ways that students’ grades change in relation to the grades of their
friends.