1. According to Erikson, adolescents are in the stage of: |
a. identity versus role confusion. |
2. Psychosocial development during adolescence is often seen as a quest to answer the question: |
C. "Who am I?" |
3. Psychosocial development during adolescence involves the search for a(n): |
d. understanding of onself |
4. According to Erikson, the ultimate adolescent psychosocial goal is identity: |
b. achievement |
5. Following Erikson’s lead, _____ distinguished four specific ways young people cope with this life stage. |
c. Marcia |
6. When a person adopts parents’ or society’s roles and values without questioning and exploring a personal identity, it is referred to as identity: |
b. foreclosure. |
7. Without any thoughtful consideration, Sean took on an identity that is the opposite of what his parents want for him. Sean has adopted a(n): |
a. negative identity. |
8. Identity diffusion refers to the identity status in which adolescents: |
c. do not commit to goals and fail to take on any role. |
9. Identity diffusion is typically characterized by: |
a. apathy. |
10. The term for a pause in identity formation, when alternatives are explored before final choices are made, is known as: |
d. moratorium. |
11. During an identity moratorium, adolescents typically: |
b. take on a temporary role and postpone making career decisions. |
12. Harold readily adopted his parent’s religious faith without question. Happy and secure, he enjoys participating in religious events with his parents. His identity status reflects: |
c. foreclosure. |
13. According to Erikson, what is one of the four aspects of identity? |
b. political |
14. Identity politics refers to the tendency to: |
d. vote for people of one’s own race, religion, ethnicity, or gender. |
15. Research indicates that adolescents who work 20 hours a week or more: |
d. tend to hate their jobs and achieve less in school. |
16. People’s acceptance of the roles and behaviors that they define as male or female is referred to as their _____ identity. |
a. gender |
17. Gender refers to: |
a. the cultural or social attributes of being male or female. |
18. In typical relationships, one would expect the MOST bickering between: |
c. mothers and daughters |
19. Parent-child arguments during the teen years indicate: |
d. children’s desire for autonomy. |
20. Eva is about to become a teenage mother. Based on recent research, she and her child will better handle the situation if her parents: |
d. are supportive, but do not assume complete care for her child. |
21. A father’s awareness of where his teenagers are, what they are doing, and with whom they are doing it is referred to as: |
a. parental monitoring. |
22. Restrictive and controlling parenting practices are associated with: |
b. adolescent depression. |
23. _____ expressed the belief that adolescents must rebel in order to become healthy adults. |
d. Anna Freud |
24. In Western cultures the idea that a certain amount of adolescent rebellion is normal and perhaps even healthy reflects a: |
b. social construction. |
25. The urge to conform to one’s peers in behavior, dress, and attitude is referred to as: |
d. peer pressure. |
26. Chris typically can be found with the same group of close friends on the gym steps at lunchtime. He and his friends do not ask others to sit with them. Psychologists call Chris’s group a: |
a. clique. |
27. Adolescent romantic partners: |
d. have less in common with each other than in adult couples. |
28. Isaac and Derek persuaded Robert to cut school and steal alcohol from a store. Isaac and Derek provided _____ to Robert. |
b. deviancy training |
29. A study of adult women in the United States found that those who voluntarily had sex before the age of 16 were: |
d. likely to get a divorce as an adult. |
30. The term that describes one having erotic desires about the same sex, the opposite sex or both sexes is: |
b. sexual orientation. |
31. Hector is 15 years old and does not identify with his biological sex. He feels he is in the wrong body, but does not have the support he needs to transition into another gender easily. According to the DSM-5, Hector may suffer from: |
a. gender dysphoria. |
32. Child sexual abuse: |
d. is most common when the first signs of puberty occur. |
33. In communities and families that forbid adolescent sex, teenagers are: |
a. not likely to receive medical care when they contract an STI. |
34. A young boy experienced ongoing sexual abuse until he was 15. Now that he is a grown man, it is likely that he: |
c. is depressed and has difficulty with sex or other psychosocial problems. |
35. One reason that the teenage pregnancy rate in most European nations is less than half of that in the United States may be because: |
a. most European schools begin offering sex education in elementary school. |
36. The abstinence-only sex-education program that was widely promoted in the United States in 1998 resulted in _____ sexual activity by teenagers. |
c. no significant impact on |
37. Compared to when they were children, many adolescents are: |
c. less self-confident. |
38. The cultural norm of familism often: |
c. requires family members to make sacrifices for the good of the whole. |
39. Approximately 1 in _____ adolescent girls is affected by clinical depression. |
b. 5 |
40. Approximately 1 in _____ adolescent boy is affected by clinical depression. |
c. 10 |
41. One study found that the short allele of the serotonin transporter promoter gene (5-HTTLPR) contributes to increased rates of depression in all girls, but only in boys who: |
d. come from low-SES backgrounds. |
42. Elyse broke up with her boyfriend after a fight. She has spent the last week repeatedly going over the fight in her mind, which has caused her to sink into depression. Her continual reliving the fight is known as: |
a. rumination. |
43. Suicidal ideation refers to: |
b. thinking about suicide. |
44. Parasuicide refers to: |
a. a suicide attempt that does not end in death. |
45. What is more common in adolescent boys than in adolescent girls? |
c. completed suicide |
46. Several suicides within the same group of people in a brief period are called _____ suicides. |
d. cluster |
47. Many longitudinal studies have shown that _____ anger during adolescence is normal and that most adolescents express their anger in _____ ways. |
a. increased; acceptable |
48. Arrest statistics do not accurately reflect the prevalence of adolescent delinquency because: |
b. only about one-fourth of adolescent offenders are caught. |
49. Life-course-persistent offenders: |
a. may show signs of neurological impairment. |
50. When applied to the discussion of drug abuse, the term "generational forgetting" means that: |
d. the new generation ignores what adults have learned about the hazards of drugs. |
51. One study found that less than _____ percent of parents of 6th graders thought their children had tried alcohol, yet _____ percent of the children said they had. |
c. 1: 22 |
52. Which factor has NOT contributed to a decline in the number of young adolescent smokers in the United States? |
b. the legal smoking age |
PSY 160 CH 10
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