1) steve eats lunch with jeff, hans, and mike every day. after school, they play computer
games and talk about girls. this group of boys is called:
a.a crowd.
b.a clique.
c.a reference group.
d.a youth culture.
2)
authoritative parenting promotes intellectual development and psychosocial maturity
through all of the following, except:
a.encouraging discussions about decisions and rules that help children understand social
relationships.
b.asserting parental authority by turning adolescents’ personal decisions into moral
issues.
c.engaging children and adolescents in verbal give-and-take.
d.encouraging understanding of social systems, which helps in the development of
reasoning, judgment, and empathy.
3) during the industrial revolution, child protectionists argued that:
a.a separate justice system must exist for juveniles.
b.adolescents needed parental permission to marry.
c.young people needed to be kept away from the labor force for their own good.
4) compared to the situation 50 years ago, today’s transition to adulthood is:
a.short and smooth
b.short and rocky
c.long and disorderly
d.long and smooth
5) who is more likely to hold a part-time job during high school?
a.gino, a canadian adolescent
b.cheri, a swedish adolescent
c.hope, a japanese adolescent
d.selena, an american adolescent
6) research assessing the link between infant attachment and the quality of interpersonal
relationships in adolescence and young adulthood finds:
a.a consistent link between infant attachment and healthy adolescent relationships.
b.little continuity between infant attachment and adolescent relationships.
c.stability of attachment over time that withstands the pressures of major life events.
d.early relationships have some effect on later interpersonal relationships.
7) when are adolescents usually in the “worst” mood?
a.when they are with friends
b.when they are working
c.when they are with their family
d.when they are alone
8)
the main antecedents of chronic delinquency appear to be rooted in:
a.relations with peers during childhood.
b.relations with parents during childhood.
c.academic failure in junior high school.
d.pessimistic attitudes about employment prospects.
9) karen, a 9th grader, was mad at cheryl for spilling juice on karen’s shirt. karen spread
a rumor that cheryl had gossiped about her friends. karen is using _____ to express her
aggression toward cheryl.
a.relational aggression
b.hostile attributional bias
c.aggressive-withdrawal
d.bullying
10) compared with studies conducted in the mid-1990s:
a.adolescents today are engaging in sexual intercourse at an earlier age.
b.fewer adolescents today are engaging in sexual intercourse.
c.regional and ethnic variations make it difficult to generalize about an average age for
sexual intercourse for american adolescents.
d.all of the above.
11) in addition to an increase in responsiveness to stress, changes in the _____ may also
help explain why adolescents’ concerns about what their peers think increase during this
time.
a.prefrontal cortex
b.dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
c.limbic system
d.levels of grey matter
12) a double shift in social status takes place during adolescence with an increase in
both _________ and ___________.
a.privileges; expectations
b.school work; discipline
c.discipline; restrictions
d.restrictions; expectations
13) for sally’s 13th birthday, her mother has agreed to let her get her ears pierced. in
traditional societies, this type of body ritual may be equated to:
a.epiphysis.
b.extrusion.
c.voodoo.
d.scarification.
14) dr. davis is interested in how puberty affects adjustment. he studies a group of 100
junior high school students over the course of three years. he is conducting what kind of
study?
a.longitudinal
b.cross-sectional
c.cross-sequential
d.secular