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On average, American girls hit puberty around __ years old, while Danish girls hit puberty around __ years old.

10.9, 9.5

In our classroom discussion, approximately __% of teenagers are self-motivated.

67

Girls are __% self-motivated while __% boys are self-motivated.

79, 59

Which of the following adolescents (all are the same age) would have a heightened susceptibility to peer pressure?

All of these youths are likely to appear relatively more susceptible to peer pressure.

Corina is concerned because she learned that her 13-year-old son, Henry, and her 17-year-old son, Hector, were caught drinking. Are either of these teenagers likely to become addicted to alcohol.

Henry

Identity is incoherent, disjointed, and characterized by an incomplete sense of self is called __________.

Identity diffusion

According to the textbook, research indicates which of the following is not a correlate of high self-esteem?

Involvement in many extra curricular activities.

Madeline is a fairly religious adolescent. Much of the research on religion and adolescence would suggest that Madeline would be:

Less depressed, less likely to engage in premarital sex

Which of the following friendship qualities would be most important to Sarah, a 14-year-old female adolescent?

Loyalty

Dating among adolescents today is largely a:

Recreational activity

Jacob and Stephen just got a project back from their teacher that they had worked on together. They received a D on the project. Jacob said that it was because the project was too hard. Stephen said it was because they hadn't worked hard enough on the project. Which adolescent is most likely to try harder on future projects?

Stephen

Generalizing from Marcia's research on identity, who is most likely to become an authoritarian parent and have the highest need for social approval?

Tara, identity foreclosed

In the United States today, the peer group is most likely to have ____ influence on an adolescent's academic achievement.

a negative

Peers usually have more influence than parents on the matters of:

cooperation and social success at school OR Patterns of leisure activity

Approximately _____ of teens are out of school, unemployed, and looking for full-time work.

in 2007, 16% of all 16-19 year olds are not enrolled in school. Of those, more than half were unemployed (8%) many of these are young parents who are at home full-time and not actively seeking work. Young people who are out of school and out of work are typically unemployed for only short periods of time The majority of unemployed youth are high school dropouts.

Which work values are most likely to remain strong over the course of young adulthood, as other work values decline?

intrinsic

According to research by Wayne Osgood and colleagues, the combination of several factors encourages delinquency and other problem behaviors among adolescents. This view is called routine activity theory, and all BUT WHICH of the following are thought to be major contributing factors to this combination?

lower-than-average intelligence


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