Psy_205_Week_8 _Exam_2...100% Correct 2020

• Question 1 3 out of 3 points The WISC measures , while achievement tests measure . Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: academic potential; knowledge of various school subjects • Question 2 3 out of 3 points John and Martha have clear rules and expectations. When a child breaks a rule, they listen to their son or daughter's side of the story before deciding on a consequence. According to Baumrind's parenting styles framework, John and Martha are probably: Answer Selected Answer: authoritative. Correct Answer: authoritative. • Question 3 3 out of 3 points Who is coping with a social clock issue? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Josephine, who is 35 and is worried she is getting too old to marry and have kids • Question 4 3 out of 3 points According to Susan Harter, self-esteem first becomes an important issue for children: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: during elementary school. • Question 5 3 out of 3 points Why did high school make adolescence a defined life stage? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Teens now spent their days together as a separate age group. • Question 6 3 out of 3 points Theresa, your best friend, tells you she thinks she is a terrific athlete but hates the way she looks. What might you predict about Theresa's overall self-esteem? Answer Selected Answer: It's low. Correct Answer: It's low. • Question 7 3 out of 3 points Marsha has a new pimple on her chin, and Frank, a boy she finds very attractive, sits down beside her in the cafeteria. Marsha is mortified and tells her mother that she must transfer to another school because she cannot go back to class the next day. Elkind would label Marsha's assumption that Frank noticed her pimple and her reaction as evidence of: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: adolescent egocentrism. • Question 8 3 out of 3 points Which person is showing prosocial behavior? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Quentin, who goes out of his way to be nice to the new boy in class • Question 9 3 out of 3 points Dr. Jones is lecturing on college and careers. Pick the statement he should make. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: “It's much more difficult today to get a decently paying job without going to college.” • Question 10 3 out of 3 points A colleague of yours has a child who is regularly in trouble at school, and she is considering sending him to a wilderness program for teens with similar problems. Based on the text discussion of deviancy training, what might you advise? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: “Be cautious. Your child might learn to be more antisocial from the other kids.” • Question 11 3 out of 3 points You are a nurse who works with teens with eating issues. Based on the text, pick your main challenge. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: increasing efficacy feelings (or self-esteem) • Question 12 3 out of 3 points Children who are temperamentally “at risk” are MOST likely to thrive when: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: their parents are unusually sensitive. • Question 13 3 out of 3 points Ruth is artistically talented and would like to be a professional painter but realizes this field is highly competitive and artists rarely make a living wage. After considering several possibilities, she has decided to become an art teacher, since she also really likes children. According to the identity statuses framework, Ruth is in: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: identity achievement. • Question 14 3 out of 3 points Corinne's son Josh wants to get heavily involved in his high school drama and voice clubs and she is worried, because her child is not a great scholar. Based on the text research, what might you advise? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Tell Josh to go for it. Heavy participation in-after school clubs can have long-term positive effects. • Question 15 3 out of 3 points From an evolutionary point of view, pick the MAIN advantage of teenage risk taking: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: It pushes young people to venture into the world and experience life. • Question 16 3 out of 3 points Which child is apt to recover MOST quickly from his parents' divorce? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Casey, whose mother and father are able to stay civil to each other • Question 17 3 out of 3 points Give each child the correct “diagnosis” or label in order: “Judy is extremely anxious and depressed.” “Jane acts disruptively and regularly gets into fights.” Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: internalizing tendencies; externalizing tendencies • Question 18 3 out of 3 points According to Erikson, our life task during adolescence and emerging adulthood is deciding: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the kind of person we want to be as an adult. • Question 19 3 out of 3 points Which teen is MOST likely to suffer from depression and poor self-esteem? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Barbara, who has had casual sex with several boys • Question 20 3 out of 3 points Your daughter gets an A on her science test. According to the research, your response should be: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: “I'm thrilled because you have been trying so hard!” • Question 21 3 out of 3 points Bullying-prevention programs focus on: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: changing classroom norms so peers don't reinforce this behavior. • Question 22 3 out of 3 points Above all else, what REALLY makes teenagers feel totally loved? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: feeling their parents have made incredible sacrifices for their well- being • Question 23 3 out of 3 points Petra is stunted and living in a developing country. Compared to a typical U.S girl, Petra will: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: reach puberty at an older age. • Question 24 3 out of 3 points Which situation involving an 8-year-old child would you be MOST likely to witness at a toy store? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Paul won't be caught dead buying a Barbie, even though it is a present for his sister. • Question 25 3 out of 3 points Which response involves induction? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: “You made fun of that kid, so think of how terrible he must feel.” • Question 26 3 out of 3 points If were only “so so” in your school abilities but have become huge success in life because you have terrific street smarts, you would agree MOST with: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Robert Sternberg's ideas about intelligence. • Question 27 3 out of 3 points If John has reached formal operations, pick his UNIQUE NEW talent. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: John can debate the pluses of positions (such as abortion), even if he is violently opposed to those ideas. • Question 28 3 out of 3 points Erik Erikson felt that an important task in our twenties is to develop a sense of: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: *intimacy through a close partner relationship. • Question 29 3 out of 3 points Since entering middle school, Julie's grades are dropping, and all she cares about is being in the “popular crowd.” Julie's behavior is: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: relatively common at her age. • Question 30 3 out of 3 points Helene tells you that in the nineteenth century, girls menstruated at an average age of 16. Now some girls reach menarche as early as age 9. Helene is referring to the: Answer Selected Answer: secular trend. Correct Answer: secular trend. • Question 31 3 out of 3 points Which phrase BEST describes the transition to adulthood among U.S. young people? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: moving backward and forward—in fits and starts—towards full adulthood • Question 32 3 out of 3 points Pick the earliest VISIBLE sign that a boy is reaching puberty. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: increase in the size of hands and feet • Question 33 3 out of 3 points Pick the core difference between friendships and popularity. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Friendships are close one-to-one relationships; popularity refers to group status. • Question 34 3 out of 3 points Compared to other Western nations, U.S. teenage pregnancy rates are . Answer Selected Answer: high Correct Answer: high • Question 35 3 out of 3 points According to Susan Harter, which child is MOST vulnerable to low self-esteem? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: an 8-year-old, whose passion is sports, but isn't good enough to make the team • Question 36 3 out of 3 points Teachers in schools that “beat the odds”: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: believe that every student can succeed. • Question 37 3 out of 3 points You are devising a questionnaire to predict which female elementary schoolers are apt to reach puberty earlier. Which item should NOT be on your list? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Is this child advanced academically? • Question 38 3 out of 3 points Pick the MAIN reason why reaching concrete operations tends to produce “self-esteem” issues. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Children can realistically compare their abilities with those of their peers. • Question 39 3 out of 3 points Carlo is the MOST aggressive “out of control” child in kindergarten. Predict Carlo's likely fate in elementary school: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Carlo will be rejected by his teachers and his peers. • Question 40 3 out of 3 points Which child is MOST likely to be resilient? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Eloise, whose parents abandoned her but is incredibly intelligent and has close relationships with several teachers • Question 41 3 out of 3 points As you are taking this test, it's so, so easy to look at the next person's answers, but you decide “No.” For each kind of reasoning pick out the correct level of moral development using Kohlberg's categories: (1)“I won't because I might get caught”; (2) “I won't because I believe that cheating is morally wrong”; (3) “I won't because I took a pledge to uphold the school's honor code.” Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: preconventional; postconventional; conventional • Question 42 3 out of 3 points Calista was highly intellectual and self-confident in elementary school. As she travels into high school (in a normal public school) and finds herself in the “brains crowd,” Calista might become: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: less popular and self-confident. • Question 43 3 out of 3 points Which baby is MOST vulnerable to maltreatment? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Kaitlyn, who was premature and cries a lot • Question 44 3 out of 3 points Emerging adulthood refers to: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: the time from the end of high school to the late twenties when young people are constructing an adult life. • Question 45 3 out of 3 points According to the research, what kind of adolescent is BEST set up to master the difficult challenges of college? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a teen who thrives on balancing responsibilities and working hard • Question 46 3 out of 3 points Dale wants a cupcake, so he shoves Tom aside. Tom reacts by bopping Dale over the head. First, label the type of aggression each child is showing and then identify which boy will be MOST angry. Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Dale is showing instrumental aggression; Tom's is reactive aggression. Tom will be most infuriated. • Question 47 3 out of 3 points If you asked a typical 13-year-old “What is your most important priority?, he would be MOST likely to answer: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: “being popular (or in the in crowd).” • Question 48 3 out of 3 points All of these 23-year-olds fit a CLASSIC emerging adult pattern EXCEPT: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Dora, who is married, working, and has a child • Question 49 3 out of 3 points The MAIN peer problem for early-maturing girls is having: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: older friends who engage in risky activities, such as smoking and drinking. • Question 50 3 out of 3 points Nancy, a graphic designer, describes her job this way: “Time flies. I get so absorbed in finding just the right logo to best convey what the customer wants that, before I know it, the day is over. I don't realize that I'm one of the few people left in the office until the janitor comes to empty my trash can.” Nancy is: Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: