1) when asked about her reason for wanting to date, 14-year-old kayla is most likely to
say she wants to
a)gain status with her peers.
b)share interesting activities with someone.
c)please her parents.
d)find someone who would make a good permanent partner.
2) cross-cultural research shows that cosleeping
a)is the norm for approximately 90 percent of the worlds population.
b)is uncommon in u.s. ethnic minority families.
c)babies breastfeed for shorter time periods than independent sleepers.
d)children are at risk for later social problems, especially dependency.
3) contemporary research suggests that the storm-and-stress notion of adolescence is
a)the most accurate perspective.
b)greatly understated.
c)slightly accurate because most teens experience emotional turbulence.
d)greatly exaggerated.
4) the likelihood that a child will negatively evaluate an adults order to commit an
immoral act
a)is much greater for a child from a collectivist, rather than an individualist, society.
b)depends primarily on the childs gender, with boys being more likely than girls to
respond negatively.
c)is directly related to the childs socioeconomic status.
d)is unrelated to the childs cultural background.
5) jose is a homosexual man. which of the following is most likely to be true?
a)he has a higher-than-average number of older brothers.
b)he has a higher-than-average number of younger sisters.
c)he is an only child.
d)he is a first-born child.
6) tates father wants to support his identity development. he should
a)limit tates participation in extracurricular activities so he has more time to spend at
home.
b)discourage tate from talking to others about identity concerns, as this will be
confusing in his own identity search.
c)encourage him to avoid vocational training programs during adolescence because this
makes teens feel locked in to a certain career choice.
d)collaborate with tate when solving problems and allow tate to voice his own opinions.
7) research on school transitions shows that ________ declines for both genders after
each school change.
a)self-esteem
b)grade-point average
c)loneliness
d)dating
8) _________ was the first researcher to point out the wide variability in adolescent
adjustment.
a)sigmund freud
b)margaret mead
c)g. stanley hall
d)anna freud
9) according to international comparisons, instruction in the united states is
____________ than in other industrialized countries.
a)more challenging
b)less focused on absorbing facts
c)less focused on high-level reasoning
d)more focused on critical thinking
10) when a researcher directly controls or manipulates changes in an independent
variable by exposing participants to the treatment conditions,
a)she is conducting a correlational study.
b)cause-and-effect relationships can be detected.
c)the correlational coefficient should be zero.
d)she is using a technique called matching.
11) one way professor hudgens could use the matching technique to assign the
participants to the experimental conditions would be to
a)flip a coin or draw names out of a hat.
b)let the parents choose in which experimental group they would like their children to
participate.
c)assign equal numbers of children with high and low parental conflict to each
treatment condition.
d)let the children choose in which experimental group they would like to participate.
12) which of the following is true about bullying?
a)most bullies are high-status boys who are liked for their leadership or athletic
abilities.
b)aggression and victimization are polar opposites.
c)the best way to reduce bullying is to teach the victim to be more aggressive.
d)chronic victims tend to be passive when active behavior is expected.
13) behavioral geneticists
a)have identified the variations in dna sequences associated with most psychological
disorders.
b)argue that the effects of the environment account for only a small amount of variation
in behavior.
c)are still limited to investigating the impact of genes on complex characteristics
indirectly.
d)have identified the genes that underlie most polygenic traits, such as intelligence and
personality.
14) jennas physical growth is slow. she has short eyelid openings, a thin upper lip, a
flattened philtrum, and brain injury. jennas mother probably _______ during pregnancy.
a)drank heavily
b)smoked cigarettes
c)used cocaine
d)used methadone
15) in freuds genital stage,
a)social forces determine the young persons reaction to puberty.
b)sexual impulses reawaken, triggering psychological conflict and volatile behavior.
c)sexual impulses remain dormant for a short period of time.
d)the major conflict is calledoedipal conflict.