1) current efforts aimed at encouraging healthy behaviors among adolescents involve all
of the following, except:
a.reducing health compromising behaviors.
b.increasing health enhancing behaviors.
c.encouraging adolescents to sign contracts promising to abstain from unhealthy
behaviors.
d.encouraging health care professionals to do more screening for risky health practices.
2) kelly’s parents are disappointed with the education she is receiving in her public high
school, so they have been investigating alternative options. assuming kelly’s parents are
financially strapped but want to send her to a private school, which of the following
should they do?
a.obtain government-subsidized school vouchers to use for private school tuition
b.send her to a less expensive inner-city public school
c.refuse to send her to school at all
d.tell her to make do with her current school situation
3) it now appears that the only reliable sex difference in mental abilities is in the area
of:
a.spatial abilities.
b.verbal abilities.
c.math abilities.
d.creative abilities.
4) professor mcgonagall has been watching the students at hogwarts for several years as
they move through adolescence. which groups are most likely to exhibit favorable
patterns of achievement over time?
a.jocks and brains
b.jocks and populars
c.brains and populars
d.populars and normals
5) carol has just learned that her son, mike, has been caught shoplifting for the fifth
time. carol told the police that mike is just reacting to the stress of going through
puberty. how accurate is carol’s idea?
a.carol is probably correct; adolescence is a very confusing time.
b.adolescent stress can only be part of the problem. there must be some problems at
home as well.
c.carol is incorrect. problem behavior is virtually never a direct consequence of going
through the normative adolescent changes.
d.mike’s problem behavior is difficult to trace to just one cause.
6) all of the following are ways that scientists study brain maturation except:
a.by using dti to see the ways in which various regions of the brain are connected
b.by using fmri to examine patterns of activity in various regions of the brain while
individuals are performing a variety of tasks
c.by electroencephalography to measure event-related potentials in response to different
stimuli or events
d.by using fmri to measure event-related potential in response to different stimuli or
events
7) comparisons of large and small schools reveal that:
a.small schools actually offer more varied curricula.
b.students in large schools are more likely to participate in school activities.
c.small schools have more material resources.
d.students in small schools are more likely to participate in school activities.
8) the factor that seems most important in influencing how well children adjust to
divorce over time is:
a.the educational level of the parent.
b.the degree of conflict between parents.
c.the age of the parents.
d.the sex of the custodial parent.
9) denise kandel is most likely to argue that:
a.a predisposition toward deviance may be inherited.
b.biologically based differences account for differences in arousal and
sensation-seeking.
c.defiance develops in deviance-prone children who are reared in hostile environments.
d.involvement in a given problem behavior may lead to involvement in other problem
behaviors.
10) which of the following is not a good predictor of whether adolescents will engage in
sexual activity?
a.the adolescent’s opportunity to have sex
b.parent-adolescent communication
c.having sexually active friends
d.use of alcohol and other drugs
11) the physical transformation from child to adult is called:
a.puberty
b.early adolescence
c.middle adolescence
d.late adolescence
12) aids is transmitted through:
a.casual contact.
b.bodily fluids.
c.kissing.
d.mosquito bites.
13) the process of grouping individuals within social institutions on the basis of
chronological age is called:
a.mainstreaming.
b.tracking.
c.age grading.
d.reference grouping.
14) since jerry became an adolescent, he has experimented with different roles and
personalities. jerry’s parents are telling all their friends that this is just a “phase” that
he’s going through. according to erikson, this “phase” is called:
a.identity foreclosure.
b.psychosocial moratorium.
c.identity confusion.
d.negative identity.
15) which statement is most likely true about american adolescents today?
a.adolescents are experimenting with drugs at later ages.
b.marijuana is the only substance used by a substantial number of high school seniors
daily.
c.adolescents are experimenting with drugs at earlier ages.
d.a large proportion of adolescents use hard drugs.