DEP Test 2
Possibly a gang member
"The toughs"
In passive activities
According to a survey conducted in the early 2000s, how do adolescents spend most of their leisure time?
The majority
Approximately how many of today's high school students will have worked in an after-school job before graduating?
Music related and academic related
Aside from athletics, which types of extracurricular actives are next most popular among adolescents?
Aggressive-withdrawn child
At greatest risk for developing psychological problems as a result of peer rejection
Obedience
Authoritative parents value all of the following except
One-sixth
Brown's study of Crowds in high school, what fraction of adolescents do not fit clearly into a crowd?
Become less important to adolescents
By the end of high school, crowds:
Less;Similar
Conflict between parents and adolescents over mundane matters is generally-------- frequent in ethnic minority than in White families, the topic of disagreement are ------ across ethnic groups
Stimulant medication, antidepressants and psychological therapies
Common treatments of ADHD
students in small schools are more likely to participate in school activities.
Comparisons of large and small schools reveal that
A. The future B. Sexual Appeal C. Money D. Adult Roles D. Money
Concerns of adolescents and their parents are often complementary. All of the following issues concern both adolescents and their parents except:
inclusive
Even though Scott has some difficulty in English, his school places him in the highest track. What type of tracking system does his school use?
Teaching social skills like self expression and leadership techniques
Interventions designed to help unpopular;ar adolescents improve their social skills have employed which of the following techniques?
Experience Sampling Method
Involves adolescents carrying beepers and reporting their moods when paged
Combination of aggression and poor emotion regulation or lack of social skills
Main reason that reactive aggression is associated with unpopularity and greater problems with peers is that reactive aggression is characterized by:
About 40 percent of adolescents have never bullied anyone
Pepler, Jiang, Craig and Connolly studied a sample of 10-17 year old Toronto youths and found that
Robert, a 13 year old
Which child would be expected to have the most conflict with his parents?
School size
Which has a greater effect on students' scholastic achievement? School size or class size?
As school size increases, academic achievement decreases
Which is true?
Need for part time workers abundance of low-wage positions short shift schedules All of the above (correct)
Which of the following characteristics of the retail and restaurant industries contributed to the rise in adolescent employment?
Being too loving is indulgent
Which of the following is not one of the 10 Basic principles of good parenting?
Dysgraphia
impaired ability in handwriting
relational aggression
spread a rumor
Age Grading
the process of grouping individuals within social institutions on the basis of age
Less mature and more conforming to their peers
According to Baumrind, children of indulgent parents tend to be:
Familism
An orientation in which the needs of one's family take precedence over the needs of the individual
Patterns of leisure activity
Peers usually have more influence than parents on matters of:
10%; 40%; 70%
A recent study of more that 2000 adolescents found that ---- of adolescents had engaged in electronic bullying, as compared with===== who had physically bullied someone and ----- who had verbally bullied someone
Clique: Crowd
15 year old is most likely to learn social skills in a ----- and develop her sense of identity in a -----
Sociometric;perceived
A crowd member that has less social capitol who is really nice, thoughtful, and funny in person, may be high in ---- popularity, but low in ------ popularity.
Babysitting or Childcare
A job that an 8th grader is most likely to have
Competence
A positive view of one's actions in domain-specific areas
Productive;leisure
Adolescents spend least time on ----- activities and most time on ---- activities
Delinquency, anxiety and depression, and substance abuse
Adolescents who have ADHD are at risk for:
ADHD
Adolescents who have academic difficulties that can be traced to persistent and impairing symptoms of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity may have:
How much time they have left to live themselves
After midlife, parents are more likely to think about the future in terms of:
True in Family Conflict
Among those teenagers and parents who report having problems, the great majority and problematic relationships during childhood.
Confidence
An internal sense of overall positive self-worth and self-efficacy; global self-regard
5 C's Model
Caring, Character, Connection, Confidence, Competence
longitudinal study
Cause and affect relationship between psychological wellbeing and extracurricular activities using which study?
A. Financial demands resulting from parents being part of the "sandwich generation" B. Being the central setting for their adolescent's narrow social world (Correct) C. Differing expectations about family obligations D. Adolescents' increasing assertiveness and influence in the family
Changes requiring considerable adjustment for families with adolescents typically include all of the following except:
How does employment affect adolescent development?
Depends on many factors, including the nature of the job, the number of hours worked each week, and the aspect of development studied.
Crowd
Don't always hang out together, but share common interests
ESM
Emma is dancing to her favorite song on the radio when her electronic pager goes off. Emma proceeds to pull out a notebook and record her current emotional state. This is know as what?
Positive youth development
Emphasis on developing positive attributes is known as what?
False statement about parent-adolescent conflict
Ethnic minority adolescents are more likely than White adolescents to experience conflict with their parents.
Between 600 and 900 students
Ideal size of a school for adolescents
Dyscalculia
Impaired ability in arithmetic
dyslexia
Impaired ability in reading or spelling
Athletics
Jeb has the choice of several after school activities. Statistically, he is most likely to choose what?
Peers
Judy and Jessica hang around people their same age. These people are most accurately described as:
ESM Created By
Larson
Sweden
Likely to have a relatively low prevalence of bullying
On how to wear his hair
Mark is a teenager who generally respects his parents. On which of the following issues is Mark most likely to side with his friends agains his parents.
Extended family
May act as a buffer for children growing up in single-parent households and plays an important role in the socialization of black youth
Middle adolescence
Mixed-Sex cliques become more prevalent in:
Nature of ParentAdolescent relationship reveals that
Most adolescents appear to maintain positive, supportive, and mutually respective relationships with parents
Do nothing/walk away
Most effective way to respond to a bully?
Robert, a male who is highly relationally aggressive
Most likely to be rejected as a result of aggressive behavior
Mothers' mental health declines when they enter the "empty nest stage"
Not true about parents of adolescents
Formal;Agricultural
Older students are more likely to hold ------ jobs and working teenagers in rural areas are more likely to be employed in ----- jobs.
Big-fish-little-pond effect
One potential explanation for the finding that gifted students who are integrated into regular classrooms have more positive academic self-conceptions than those in special classes is:
Identity Crisis
One reason for imbalance or disequilibrium in the family during the adolescent years is that parents may be experiencing what?
ay also be experiencing identity crises of their own
One reason that the adolescent years may constitute a difficult period of adjustment is that parents:
Less common than
Online harassment is ------ in person harrasment
Authoritative
Parenting style most closely associated with overall psychological competence
Meritocratic
Placing students in tracks that match their abilities is called:
Connection
Positive bonds with people and institutions that are reflected in bidirectional exchanges
Jocks
Probably not found in European schools
self-fulfilling prophecy
Research has shown that teachers tend to favor high-achieving students by providing extra cues for answers and more positive nonverbal behaviors than for lower-achieving students. Such evidence provides support for the notion that teachers' expectations may contribute to:
Character
Respect for societal and cultural rules
middle/junior/high
Secondary Education
Caring
Sense of sympathy and empathy for others
Sociometric popularity
Social skills, friendliness, and sense of humor
Common
Specific learning disabilities are:
Adolescents and their parents communicate in their native language
Studies of immigrant families suggest that the least amount of conflict exists in households which...
Remains very wide
The gap in achievement between Black and Hispanic students, on the one hand, and White and Asian students, on the other hand,------
Midlife crisis of adults
The identity crisis of adolescence may interact with the ----- in increasing family conflict
Personal Taste
The popular notion of a "generation gap" has only been supported in difference between parents and children with regard to:
Tracking
The process of separating students into different levels of classes within the same school is called:
Generation Gap
The tensions that are often assumed to be inherent in the relations between adolescents and adults
Generation Gap
The tensions that are often assumed to be inherent in the relations between adolescents and adults are referred to as:
Mainstreamed whenever possible
Under current federal law, children with learning disabilities must be:
Instrumental aggression
Use aggression deliberately
Reactive aggression
Use aggression without planning
Industrialization
What did not contribute to the rise in adolescent employment?
Diversity and Accessibility
What two dominant characteristics distinguish the development of postsecondary education in contemporary America from that in other parts of the world?
Diversity and accessibility
What two dominant characteristics distinguish the development of postsecondary education in contemporary America from that in other parts of the world?
Within the adolescent population; between the generations
When it comes to basic core values (religion, work, education) diversity----- is much more striking than are differences-------
Maya, a white female
Which adolescent is most likely to have a decrease in time spent with parents and a dramatic increase of time spent with peers?
Youth who earn better grades
Who of the following is most likely to be involved in EC activities?
Parents and adolescents reciprocally influence each other
Why is it difficult to determine the exact nature (and direction of the effect) of the relations between family characteristics and adolescent development?
Perceived popularity
highly variable
Diminished social competence
rejected because withdrawn and rejected
