Adolescent Psychology Quiz 4

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The process of grouping individuals within social institutions on the basis of chronological age is called:

age grading

Research studying adolescent friendship networks has found all of the following, except:

more than half of the adolescents in any given school are members of cliques.

Which boy is most likely to commit an act of lethal violence?

It is virtually impossible to predict which student will commit a lethal crime

Generalizing from the text, who would benefit most from summer school?

Ron, an adolescent living in a low SES neighborhood

What is the paradox of dropping out of school?

Students who drop out are typically the ones who are most harmed by doing so.

The main reason that reactive aggression is associated with unpopularity and greater problems with peers is that reactive aggression is characterized by:

a combination of aggression and poor emotion regulation or lack of social skills.

All of the following are significant changes in peer groups that occur during adolescence, except:

a decrease in the size of their peer groups

A group against which an individual compares himself or herself is called:

a reference group

According to the textbook, which of the following resulted from standards-based reform:

educators could not agree on the body of knowledge and skills that comprised what high school graduates should know and be able to do

According to Kinney's research, youngsters who were "nerds" in middle school:

had opportunities to shift status in high school

Hostile attributional bias:

plays a central role in the aggressive behavior of rejected adolescents.

The practice of moving students from one grade to the next regardless of their academic performance is known as what?

social promotion

Interventions designed to help unpopular adolescents improve their social skills have employed which of the following techniques?

teaching social skills like self-expression and leadership techniques

Age segregation in schools is the most efficient way to educate children in societies that are:

universalistic

According to Jacquelynne Eccles, a thorough understanding of school and its impact on adolescent development requires an examination of:

what goes on beyond the classroom


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