1) studies suggest which of the following are antecedents of homosexuality?
a.biological factors
b.social factors
c.the interaction between biological and social factors
d.all of the above
2) as discussed in your text, the major characteristics of good schools include all but
which of the following?
a.being integrated into the community (e.g., with local colleges or businesses)
b.an emphasis on intellectual activities
c.emphasizing rote memorization and passive listening in classrooms
d.employing committed teachers and giving them the freedom to plan their curricula
3) according to some commentators, teenagers have become separate from adult society
to such an extent that they have established their own society, which undermines
parents’ authority and emphasizes peer deviance. this society is called:
a.the woodstock generation.
b.the dead poet’s society.
c.the lost boys.
d.the youth culture.
4) racial socialization, the process by which parents teach children about their ethnic
identity and the experiences they may encounter within society as a result of this
identity, is thought to focus on three major themes. which of the following is not one of
these themes?
a.getting along in mainstream society
b.dealing with racism
c.intolerance of the majority culture
d.understanding one’s own culture
5) which of the following contributed to the invention of the “teenager”?
a.industrialization
b.economic freedom
c.higher education
d.student activism
6) shawn is told by his teacher that the task he is working on is too difficult for him.
therefore, shawn believes that failure is inevitable. he is likely to develop:
a.learned helplessness.
b.attribution biases.
c.achievement attributions.
d.none of the above.
7) according to the textbook, research indicates which of the following is not a correlate
of high self-esteem:
a.approval of parents
b.approval of peers
c.succeeding in school
d.involvement in many extracurricular activities
8) according to the textbook, which of the following is not a limitation to theories of
career choice that are based solely on reward preference assessed in adolescence?
a.interests and abilities are not fixed during adolescence.
b.they may underestimate the importance of other factors that influence and shape
vocational decisions (e.g., the social context).
c.many career decisions are influenced more by individuals’ beliefs about what sorts of
jobs are accessible or “appropriate” for them than by their interests and preferences.
d.all of the above are important limitations to theories of career choice that are based
solely on reward preference assessed in adolescence.
9) which of the following patterns of attachment is positively correlated with high
sociability in childhood?
a.anxious-resistant
b.secure
c.anxious-avoidant
d.dependent
10) disruptions in family finances lead to more:
a.frequent conflict among fathers and sons.
b.drug and alcohol abuse among parents.
c.consistent discipline.
d.frequent conflict among mothers and daughters.
11) sternberg’s “triarchic theory of intelligence” proposes that to assess an individual’s
intellectual capabilities it is necessary to look at three distinct, but interrelated, types of
“intelligence”:
a.verbal, mathematical, and spatial.
b.componential, experiential, and contextual.
c.componential, kinesthetic, and experiential.
d.verbal, mathematical, and interpersonal.
12) recent research indicates that _______ has negative effects on adolescents’ mental
health, whereas _________ has positive ones.
a.detachment; nondependency
b.detachment; individuation
c.individuation; nondependency
d.individuation; detachment
13) before shirley fills out her course registration for fall semester, she asks her parents
which courses they think she should take. shirley also consults the guidance counselor
at school as well as some of her close friends. she weighs their suggestions, then enrolls
in the courses that seem best suited to her educational goals. which type of autonomy is
shirley expressing?
a.cognitive autonomy
b.behavioral autonomy
c.emotional autonomy
d.psychosocial autonomy
14) in addition to parental supervision, what else might help decrease the probability of
adolescent sexual activity?
a.insisting that adolescents come home right after school
b.having adolescents participate in after-school programs
c.having their fathers talk to them about the dangers of sexual involvement
d.providing them with books on the risks of sexual involvement
15) a(an) _____ is an individual that has few or no links to others in the social network
and a(an) _____ is an individual who interacts with two or more adolescents who are
members of cliques, but who themselves are not part of a clique.
a.liaison; isolate
b.hopper; loner
c.isolate; liaison
d.isolate; mixer
16) today, adolescence has been redefined as a time of _____, rather than _____.
a.participation; preparation
b.preparation; participation
c.working; schooling
d.apprenticeship; autonomy
17) antonio is very confident about his abilities; he has a strong sense of:
a.academic success.
b.self-efficacy.
c.self-awareness.
d.social desirability.
18) professor lerner is investigating sexism in tracking in same-sex schools and in
coeducational schools. she is likely to find:
a.more sexism in all-boys schools than in other schools.
b.more sexism in all-girls schools than in other schools.
c.more sexism in coeducational schools than in same-sex schools.
d.sexism exists in all of these schools.