PSY 208 quiz answers for final

Which of the following types of parenting promotes healthy emotional autonomy in adolescents?

Authoritative

The psychosocial domain concerning the development and expression of independence is called

Autonomy

Before Hila fills out her course registration for the fall semester, she asks her parents which courses they think she should take. Hila also consults the guidance counselor at school as well as some of her close friends. She weighs their suggestions, then enrolls in the courses that seem best suited to her educational goals. Which type of autonomy is Hila demonstrating?

Behavioral autonomy

When asked what a guilty person should do when being interrogated by police, younger adolescents are more likely than older adolescents to recommend that the person

Confess

Research suggests that the majority of adolescents probably function at which of the following moral reasoning levels?

Conventional

During late adolescence, the susceptibility to peer pressure

Decreases

In classical psychoanalytic theories, the process of separation that occurs during early adolescence is referred to as

Detachment

Kikko strongly dislikes country music but told Keith, who is a big country music fan and her latest love interest, that country music is her favorite and that she would love to go with him to a country music concert, This type of behavior is called

False-self behavior

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

Identity diffusion

According to Erikson, the major crisis of adolescence is called

Identity versus identity diffusion

Jessica is 15 years old and spends considerable energy wondering who she is and what kind of person she will become. Erikson would describe her as facing the crisis called

Identity versus identity diffusion

A sense of identity is typically crystallized

In late adolescence to the early '20s

In contrast to the psychoanalytic perspective, many researchers today assert that a late adolescent who is gradually and progressively sharpening his/her sense of self as autonomous, competent, and separate from one's parents is in the process of

Individuation

Parents who use a lot of psychological control are best characterized as being

Overprotective and intrusive

What does the five-factor model describe?

Personality dimensions

Which of the following factors is the most important predictor of an individual's overall self-esteem?

Physical appearance self-esteem

How positively or negatively an individual feels about himself or herself defines

Self-esteem

Researchers have identified which of the following factors as a critical component of the development of identity during adolescence?

Self-esteem

Identity formation is best seen as a

Series of interrelated developments

Peers usually have more influence than parents over adolescents' decisions regarding

Social matters