Multiple choice questions:
The following two criteria must be presented to describe an adolescent as resilient, namely significant
adversity and:
1. Negative adjustment
2. Positive adjustment (page 237)
3. Negative support
4. Positive support
A learner who repeatedly scores low marks in tests, and attribute this to the teacher who is seen as
being against them, is using the following defence mechanism
1. Denial
2. Depression
3. Projection (page 105)
4. Regression
According to Erikson, adolescents experience a crisis characterised by:
1. Intimacy versus isolation
2. Identity versus identity diffusion (page 109)
3. Generativity versus stagnation
4. Initiative versus guilt
Which statement is true with regard to the peer group?
1. The values of the peer group always differ from those of the parents
2. The peer group offers the adolescent an opportunity to compete with others on an equal
footing (page 92)
3. Peer groups always consist of members of the same sex and culture
4. Conformity to the peer groups identity is essential and individual identity is rejected
Parents who encourage communication with their adolescent children are
1. Permissive
2. Authoritarian
3. Authoritative (page 84)
4. Over-involved
Constructivism means that the
1. Learner constructs knowledge for themselves (page 224)
2. Teacher constructs the knowledge for the learner
3. Learner and the teacher together construct the knowledge
4. Learner constructs knowledge with the help of other learners
There are three steps in the memory processing process namely, working/short-term memory, long-
term memory and
1. Sensory register (page 226)
2. Central executive
3. Memory register
4. Memory executive
The following two criteria must be presented to describe an adolescent as resilient, namely significant
adversity and:
1. Negative adjustment
2. Positive adjustment (page 237)
3. Negative support
4. Positive support
A learner who repeatedly scores low marks in tests, and attribute this to the teacher who is seen as
being against them, is using the following defence mechanism
1. Denial
2. Depression
3. Projection (page 105)
4. Regression
According to Erikson, adolescents experience a crisis characterised by:
1. Intimacy versus isolation
2. Identity versus identity diffusion (page 109)
3. Generativity versus stagnation
4. Initiative versus guilt
Which statement is true with regard to the peer group?
1. The values of the peer group always differ from those of the parents
2. The peer group offers the adolescent an opportunity to compete with others on an equal
footing (page 92)
3. Peer groups always consist of members of the same sex and culture
4. Conformity to the peer groups identity is essential and individual identity is rejected
Parents who encourage communication with their adolescent children are
1. Permissive
2. Authoritarian
3. Authoritative (page 84)
4. Over-involved
Constructivism means that the
1. Learner constructs knowledge for themselves (page 224)
2. Teacher constructs the knowledge for the learner
3. Learner and the teacher together construct the knowledge
4. Learner constructs knowledge with the help of other learners
There are three steps in the memory processing process namely, working/short-term memory, long-
term memory and
1. Sensory register (page 226)
2. Central executive
3. Memory register
4. Memory executive
