Exam 2 AP

Mrs. Kumin wants to help her lower-achieving students. She should

help them learn to attribute their performance to factors that are under their control.

Which of the following adolescents is likely to develop a mastery orientation?

Autumn, whose parents encourage her independent interests

Which statement concerning parent-adolescent conflict is true?

Ethnic minority adolescents are less likely than White adolescents to experience conflict with their parents.

What can you conclude based on the studies that compared very poor adolescents who had intensive intervention in preschool, those who had intensive intervention in elementary school, and those who had no intensive intervention?

Funding preschool interventions will yield more positive results than funding elementary school interventions.

Justin's parents try extremely hard (almost excessively) to control his choice of friends. What effect is this style of parenting likely to have on Justin?

Justin may become closer to the "forbidden" peers.

Which of the following research findings best describes the phenomenon known as generational dissonance?

Recent studies have found that stress and conflict are higher in Latino families in which adolescents are relatively more acculturated than their parents.

Evelyn always scored at the top of her class in elementary and high school. Now, as an adult, she is a successful executive. If Evelyn had taken part in the "marshmallow study" conducted nearly 50 years ago, what would researchers most likely have discovered about Evelyn?

She has always been skilled at delaying gratification.

According to research, which of the following is true in classrooms in which teachers are very performance oriented?

Students focus on high grades rather than true understanding of the material.

Why is it so hard to teach adolescents to "just say no" to things adults disapprove of, such as drinking, smoking, and having risky sex?

These behaviors are typically associated with being popular.

Bella works hard in school because she enjoys figuring out difficult problems and accomplishing complex tasks. Arielle works hard in school because she loves the feeling of getting the highest grades in her class. A psychologist would say that these two adolescents differ in what?

achievement goal orientation

According to research, which of the following is an effective form of parental involvement?

being involved in school-based activities

You are a psychologist treating Martina, a middle school student who is popular among classmates despite being a bully. What types of behavior would you expect to see in her?

calculated pre-planned aggression

According to many well-designed studies that have looked at the psychological consequences of growing up with lesbian or gay parents

children and adolescents with lesbian or gay parents are not psychologically different from those with straight parents

Which of the following is an effective way to enhance the development of an adolescent's reasoning abilities, moral judgment, and empathy?

family discussions in which rules and expectations are explained

According to research, many youngsters who were "nerds" in middle school

had opportunities to shift status in high school

Lupe's parents express love toward her and want her to be happy. They let her, for the most part, establish her own schedule. Lupe eats when she's hungry, has full run of the house, goes out when she pleases, and sleeps when she's tired. This parenting style is best described as

indulgent

The most effective strategy for keeping students from dropping out of high school has been

involving at-risk students in service learning and guided discussions of their life options.

Parents influence adolescents more in terms of ________, but friends influence adolescents more in terms of ________.

long-term educational plans; day-to-day school activities

Although this theory has not been supported empirically, it was once believed that Black students in the inner city who do well in school

may be criticized by their peers who say they are "acting White."

Which of these would you expect to find in a cofigurative society?

study groups in which young people and adults work together to learn technology skills