Exam 3
adolescence use media
9 hours a day
Approximately what percentage of teens who are online use social media?
95%
Which of the following is not a characteristic of an adolescent's growing emotional autonomy?
Adolescents become more likely to believe that their life would have been better if they had their friends' parents.
Which of the following statements concerning volunteerism is false?
Engaging in community service has a long-lasting positive impact even when it is part of a school mandated service-learning program.
Which of the following statements concerning volunteerism is true
Engaging in community service leads to increased commitment to tolerance, equal opportunity, and cultural diversity.
Across all the identity development frameworks, what is a common factor related to healthy development?
a period of experimentation and exploration before finalizing choices
According to U.S. surveys, what percent of American adolescents report an affiliation with a religious group?
about 85%
adolescents tend to report their least positive moods when they are
alone
Involvement in delinquent activity may lead to________ in self-esteem, perhaps because involvement in delinquency________.
an increase; earns teenagers approval from certain peers
the most popular type of extracurricular activities
athletics
Which of the following youth activities bears a striking resemblance to the stated goals of positive youth development program
boys and girls club
which statement about conformity to peers is true
conformity is higher during early and middle adolescence
Research suggests that the majority of adolescents probably function at which of the following moral reasoning levels?
conventional
extra-curricular activities
enhances the psychological well being and social status
Today's teenagers spend the most hours:
leisure activities
According to Kohlberg, reasoning that is based on rewards and punishments is called:
preconventional
Malkhaz believes that there is nothing wrong with drinking a little beer because, "Everyone my age does it once in a while, and I'll be a social outcast if I don't have a drink." Malkhaz's level of moral development would be described as
preconventional stage
what is a vaild concern of ado time
what they could have been doing at the time
The paradox of adolescent autonomy is that:
whereas adolescents today are expected to be increasingly autonomous psychologically and socially, they are now less autonomous economically.
More advanced levels of moral reasoning are indicative of which parenting style?
authoritative
Juanita has decided not to go along with her friends and drink alcohol after school. She realizes that drinking is wrong and decides not to give in to the peer pressure. Which of the three types of autonomy is Juanita exhibiting?
behavioral
Awareness of racism is associated with________, while mistrust is associated with________.
better achievement; doing poorly in school
in the 5 C's model of positive youth development which C stands for a sense of sympathy and empathy for others
caring/ compassion
Many studies find that rates of smoking, drinking, and drug use are higher among teenage workers than nonworkers, especially among students who
choose to work long hours
Healthy individuation and positive mental health are fostered by _____ family relationships.
close
In classical psychoanalytic theories, the process of separation that occurs during early adolescence is referred to as
detachment
is a term used for teenagers who spend too much time obsessing about their online relationships
facebook depression
during the recession which of the following was an accurate trend for teenagers
fewer teenagers had driver's licenses
what is true about ado jobs
found not challenging
Which of the following statements about self-esteem in children is true?
high achievement in school boots self esteem
studies that use the experience sampling method have investigated whether adolescents mood vary as a function of whom they are with and wheather this connection between mood and companionship changes with age.
in general adolescents moods are most postive when with friends least postive when alone somewhere in between when with family
a sense of identity is typically crystallized
in late adolescnece to the early 20s
Which of the following is not a shift that is noticed in the political thinking of adolescents as they mature?
increased authoritarianism
Whereas________ refers to individuals' capacity to behave on their own,________ has emotional and cognitive as well as behavioral components.
independence; autonomy
Emotional autonomy develops best when parents encourage________ and________.
individuation: emotional closeness
The key to resolving the crisis of identity versus identity diffusion, according to Erikson, is
interactions with others
Which of the following is associated with adolescents who work more than 20 hours per week?
low education ambition
According to personality research, there is evidence that between adolescence and young adulthood, individuals tend to become
more emotionally stable and more resilient
students who work more hours are more likely
more likely to smoke drink
temperment and personality tend to become _____ as we ____
more stable: get older
During late adolescence and the college years, students who live away from home report all but which of the following?A.
more strained family relationships
dolescents whose parents are from different ethnic or racial groups are known as________ adolescents.
multiethnic
which of the following is an example of new media
online videos
during late ado religous beliefs based on
own persepective of their beliefs
The Rise and Fall of the Student Worker
paid jobs
over the last 50 years the amount of time adolescents devote to... has declined significantly
paid jobs
Peers usually have more influence than parents on matters of:
personal taste
what does the five factor model describe
personality dimensions
According to Kohlberg, at which level of moral reasoning would someone who saw society's rules and conventions as relative and subject be at?
postconventional
while ado are soicalizing on social media
postive and negative
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 researchers, Gwen is focusing on her
self conception
Many individuals have argued that older adolescents should have the right to seek health care services without parental knowledge or consent because
the basic cognitive abilities necessary to make such decisions are mature by the age of 16
when large numbers of students in a particular school work how does this affect the schoolwork of their fellow students who do not have jobs
the quaility of their education suffers because many teachers lower classroom expectations
during late adolescence individuals define their religious beliefs based on
their own system of personal religious beliefs
what is the main difference in time use between 15-17 year olds in the late 1970s and 15-17 in the 2000s
there was a significant decline in the portion of time devoted to paid jobs and a significant increases in time
In general, how much do people's personalities differ before and after adolescence?
they usually remain about the same
about _____ of all adolescents have their own smartphone or access to one
three fourths
Ruben works over 20 hours a week during the school year and Marianne does not work at all. Ruben, compared to Marianne, is more likely to:
to drop out of school
commom message social media of sex
women are sex objects