EDPS 351 - Module 2
standardized test scores.
Debbie is moving from elementary school into middle school. We would expect her to experience declines in all of the following, except her:
productive; leisure
Adolescents spend the least amount of time on _____ activities and the most amount of time on _____ activities.
Teachers beliefs about junior high students
Eccles argues that the difficulty adolescents experience in the transition to junior high school is a result of the:
They do not get as good an education because many teachers lower classroom expectations.
How are nonworking students affected when large numbers of students in their school work?
self-regulation
Researchers have identified all of the following factors as critical components of the development of identity during adolescence, except:
authoritative
What kind of family environment most closely resembles the optimal classroom environment?
identity versus identity diffusion.
According to Erikson, the major crisis of adolescence is called:
600 and 900 students
According to evidence cited in the text, the ideal size of a school for adolescents is between:
psychosocial moratorium.
According to Erikson, a necessary "time out" for adolescents is called:
a sleeper effect
Although young children may seem unaffected by a divorce at the time, problems may emerge when they are adolescents. This delayed effect is called:
Europe
An adolescent who works in a government-sponsored apprenticeship and spends more time outside of school doing homework is most likely from:
increased emphasis was placed on math and science education
As discussed in the textbook, during the 1950s, how did the U.S. respond when politicians felt the United States had lost its scientific edge to the former Soviet Union?
intellectualization
Changes in the structure of secondary schools have been linked to broader societal revolutions. All of the following factors have contributed to these changes, except:
students in small schools are more likely to participate in school activities.
Comparisons of large and small schools reveal that:
Cory most likely has authoritative parents and Nicole most likely has authoritarian parents.
Cory is more responsible, more self-assured, more adaptive, more creative, and more intellectually curious than most of her peers. Nicole, on the other hand, is very dependent, more passive, less socially adept, less self-assured, and less intellectually curious than most of her peers. According to the textbook, what is the best way to explain this difference?
increasing the likelihood that they drop out of school
Expanding opportunities for adolescents to get involved in community service would be associated with all but which of the following outcomes?
self-concept
Gwen has recently been preoccupied with trying to understand what kind of person she is. As an exercise, she writes out a list of 20 traits that she thinks best describe her. According to the text, Gwen is focusing on her:
premature affluence.
Having more income than one can manage during early adolescence has been called:
identity diffusion
Identity that is incoherent, disjointed, and characterized by an incomplete sense of self is called:
universalistic norm
In the united states, all citizens over the age of 18 are allowed to vote. this is an example of:
cory
Jenny has high academic self esteem while Cory has high physical self-esteem. According to the textbook, who will probably have higher overall self-esteem?
authoritative
Judys parents express love toward her and they let her, for the most part, establish her own schedule. She eats when she's hungry, has full run of the house, and sleeps when she's tired. This parenting style fits best with which of the following?
enroll Kent in an after-school activity.
Kent has been involved in minor delinquent behavior. In order to curb this type of behavior, Kent s parents should:
Greater family cohesiveness than other adolescents his age
Luis s family has lived below the poverty level his entire life. Research suggests that Luis is likely to experience all of the following, except:
on how to wear his hair
Mark is a teenager who generally respects his parents. On which of the following issues, however, is Mark most likely to side with his friends and against his parents?
during the transition into adolescence.
Simmons and her colleagues found that the most marked fluctuations in self-image occur:
authoritarian
Tammys father has absolute standards and expects Tammy to conform to them without exception. If she disobeys he generally punishes her, and sees no reason why he should explain his rules to Tammy. Instead, his response is, I m the father and I love you. I know what s best for you. Her father is best described as having what kind of parenting style?
extended family
The _____ may act as a buffer for children growing up in single-parent households and plays an important role in the socialization of Black youth.
student engagement
The extent to which students are psychologically committed to learning and mastering the material rather than simply completing the assigned work is called:
gender intensification
The idea that pressure to behave in sex-appropriate ways increases during adolescence, especially for girls, is called the _______ hypothesis.
Generation gap
The tensions that are often assumed to be inherent in the relations between adolescents and adults are referred to as the:
Class size
Which aspect of the school climate is the least important in influencing psychosocial development during adolescence?
Robert, a 13-year-old
Which child would be expected to have the most conflict with his parents?
all of the above
Which of the following characteristics of the retail and restaurant industries contributed to the rise in adolescent employment?
more involvement in extracurricular activities
Which of the following has not been found to be a characteristic of adolescents who work more than 20 hours per week?
higher education
Which of the following is an adolescent the least likely to spend their job earnings on?
greater enjoyment of school
Which of the following is not associated with adolescents who work?
As school size increases, academic achievement decreases.
Which of the following statements is true?
early adolescent girls are more likely to say negative things about themselves than same-aged boys
Which of the following statements regarding sex differences in self-esteem is accurate?
authoritarian
Which type of parenting is the most prevalent among ethnic minorities?
isolate; liaison
a ____ is an individual that has few or no links to other in the social network and a _____ is an individual who interacts with two or more adolescents who are members of cliques, but who themselves are not part of a clique.
peaks in adolescence relative to childhood & aduldhood
according to the research, conformity to peer pressure:
decrease in family values
all of the following contributed to the rise of age segregation in contemporary society, except:
crowds
druggies, jocks, and nerds are examples of:
same sex; opposite sex
in early adolescents, ____ friendships are most common, and in the late adolescents, ____ friendships are common.
clique avoiders
research on the structure of cliques during high school has suggested that adolescents can fall into any of the following categories, except:
relational aggression
sarah is a popular teen girl who has just been made captain on the cheer squad. she is very socially excepted & notices that Brittany, her social rival, is starting to enjoy more attention from their peers than sarah receives. jealous, she decides to start a rumor about Brittany that she knows will cause many people to stop liking Brittany. sarah behavior is best described as an example of what?
a combination of aggression & poor emotion regulation or lack of social skills
the main reason that relative aggression is associated with unpopularity & greater problems with peers is that relative aggression is characterized by:
Cliques are typically more emotionally salient for adolescents involved in antisocial behavior
which of the following statements about cliques is false?
