Chapter 12 Quiz

A  Later relationship stability 

B  High academic achievement 

C  Depression

D  Delinquency and drug use 

A  Peer status 

B  Compatibly 

C  Companionship

D  Affection

A  Are tightly structured and exclusive

B  Contribute to a rise in depression

C  Often interfere with identity development 

D  Help young people deal with stress 

A  Social networking 

B  Cell calling

C  Cell-phone texting 

D  Instant messaging

A  Intimacy

B  Shared interests and activities 

C  Self-disclosure 

D  Shared attitudes and values

A  More important to the teen, but more strained 

B  Less intense in both positive and negative feelings 

C  More intense in positive feelings

D  More intense in negative feelings

A  Heredity plays only a minor role in depression

B  Late-maturing girls are especially prone to depressions

C  Genes can induce depression by affecting the balance of neurotransmitters in the brain

D  Biological changes associated with puberty explain why girls are more prone to depression than boys

A  Just

B  Three times

C  Not

D  Twice

A  Depression

B  An identity crisis

C  Anxiety 

D  A citation C deficiency 

A  Parents and teachers must be trained to pick up on the signals that a troubled teenager sends

B  Gun-control legislation that restricts the availability of firearms to adolescents has little impact on suicide rates

C  Parents should not be concerned about teenagers’ commenting, “I wish i were dead,” because adolescents are overly dramatic

D  It is nearly impossible to prevent adolescent suicide, as teenagers rarely exhibit warning signs around adults 

A  Suicidal adolescents are likely to have experienced multiple stressful life events 

B  Highly intelligence teens rarely commit suicide

C   Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youths are at lower risk for suicide 

D   Few suicidal adolescents have a family history of emotional problems 

A  Girls account for about one in three adolescent arrests for violence 

B  Families of delinquent youths tend to be low in warmth, high in conflict and characterized by harsh, inconsistent discipline and low monitoring

C   Teenagers tend to commit crimes in high SES neighborhoods where parents are more likely to be absent after school and in early evening

D  SES and ethnicity are strongly related to teenagers’ self reports of antisocial acts

A  David, who first displayed antisocial behavior around puberty

B  Doug, who first showed signs of physical aggression at age 3

C  Lana who was arrested three times in high school but it is now doing well in college

D   Shonna, who was first arrested at age 15 when she fell in with the wrong crowd

A  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

B  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers daily activities

C  More readily achieve a mature, harmonious relationship with their teenagers

D  Have an easier time adapting to their teenagers’ push for autonomy 

A  Are less likely to monitor their teenagers’ daily activities 

B  Have an easier time adapting to their teenagers’ push for autonomy 

C  Often react more strongly to adolescent disagreement 

D  More readily achieve a mature, harmonious relationship with their teenagers

A  Androgynous; boys

B  Masculine; boys

C  Androgynous; girls

D  Feminine; girls

A  Everyday moral judgements are practical tools that people use to achieve their goals

B  Kohlberg’s stage sequence adequately accounts for morality in everyday life

C  Everyday moral judgements are efforts to arrive at just solutions

D  Gilligan’s theory provides a more accurate account of moral reasoning than Kohlberg’s theory

A  Engages in less misconduct, but is less academically responsible 

B  Uses more alcohol, but does not use drugs

C  Is more involved in community service activities aimed at helping the less fortunate

D   Is less advanced in moral reasoning

A  Church attendance becomes a major source of parent-child conflict 

B  Most young people reject the idea of a “higher being”

C  Formal religious involvement tends to decline

D  Formal religious involvement tends to increase

A  A permissive child-rearing style

B  A diffuse-avoidant cognitive style

C  An authoritarian

D  Inductive discipline

A  Weak

B  Strong

C  Very strong

D  Modest

A  Justice 

B  Other-directed

C  Level of

D  Private conscience

A  Peers of the same ethnicity

B   Peers who present differing viewpoints

C  Like minded peers

D  Peers of the same race

A  Thom will say that the exclusion is acceptable under certain circumstances

B  Timmy will say that the exclusion is always acceptable

C  Thom will say that the exclusion is always unfair

D  Timmy will say that the exclusion is acceptable under certain circumstances

A  Measuring an “ethic’ of care” is too difficult to be reliable 

B  The results are too inconclusive to reach consensus 

C  Most have used invalid measures

D  Most do not support her contention

A  5

B  3

C  4

D  6

A  Post-conventional

B  Universal ethnical 

C  Pre-conventional

D  Conventional 

A  Interviewing parents about how their children would behave under a variety of circumstances

B  Presenting children and adults with moral dilemmas, and asking them what the main actor should do and why

C  Using puppets to act our misbehavior and then asking children to explain why the puppet was wrong

D  Observing his own children in situations where they were tempted to something they knew was wrong

A  Identity diffusion

B  Acculturative stress

C  Ethnic identity 

D  Bicultural identity

A   Moratorium

B  Achievement 

C   Diffusion

D  Foreclosure

A   Delayed

B  Achieved 

C  Foreclosed

D  Diffused 

A  Diffusion

B  Moratorium

C  Foreclosure

D  Achievement 

A  Moratorium 

B  Foreclosure

C  Diffusion

D   Achievement 

A  Permissive

B  Authoritarian 

C  Uninvolved 

D  Authoritative

A  Rises

B  Fluctuates a great deal

C  Declines

D  Declines

A  I am usually pretty honest, but sometimes I cheat on my homework 

B  I’m talkative around friends, who really listen to me, but at home, i clam up because no one really hears me

C  I am good athlete, I play three sports: soccer, tennis, and wrestling. It is hard to get my homework done

D  I am not all that smart. I try really hard, but i can never seem to remember all of the details for the test

A  Exploration followed by commitment 

B  Experimentation and error

C  An identity crisis and a resolution 

D  Forming an ideal self 

A  Isolation

B  Inferiority

C  Role confusion 

D  Mistrust 

A  Considering a moral dilemma

B  Constructing his identity

C   Adopting his parents’ values as his own 

D  Building his self esteem

A  Intimacy

B  Identity 

C  Autonomy

D  Trust