Educational Psychology
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Educational Psychology explores the principles, theories, and research findings related to how individuals learn and develop within educational settings. This course examines cognitive, emotional, and social processes that influence learning and motivation, as well as strategies for effective teaching, classroom management, and assessment. Students will analyze the impact of developmental stages, individual differences, cultural factors, and psychological disorders on learning. By connecting psychological theory to practical classroom applications, the course prepares future educators to create supportive and effective learning environments for diverse learners.
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The Adolescent Development Relationships and Culture 13th Edition by Kim Gale Dolgin
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Chapter 1: The Social Context of Adolescence
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Q1) According to the text,which of the following is NOT one of the most common reasons adolescents use the Web?
A) To use email
B) To do research for school
C) To visit social-networking sites
D) To play games
Answer: B
Q2) Approximately what percent of unwed adolescent mothers in the U.S.give their babies up for adoption?
A) 1
B) 5
C) 10
D) 20
Answer: B
Q3) Compared to 40 years ago,young people in the U.S.have premarital intercourse:
A) in higher numbers and earlier.
B) in higher numbers, but later.
C) in lower numbers and later.
D) in lower numbers, but earlier.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Adolescents in Theoretical Context
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Q1) The United States Constitution guarantees its citizens life,liberty,and the pursuit of happiness.These influences on adolescents are in Bronfenbrenner's:
A) exosystem.
B) macrosystem.
C) mesosystem.
D) microsystem.
Answer: B
Q2) According to Erikson,ego integrity vs.despair is the stage for what age group?
A) Adolescents
B) Young adults
C) Middle-aged adults
D) Elderly adults
Answer: D
Q3) Scaffolding refers to:
A) showing children how to achieve a task by having them model the teacher.
B) helping a child, but then taking away the help once the task can be done alone.
C) putting children of the same ability in groups so that they work together.
D) allowing children to explore and experiment on their own to complete a task.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Adolescent Diversity: Socioeconomic Status and Ethnicity
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Q1) Which Latino group has the highest unemployment rate in the U.S.?
A) Mexican Americans
B) Puerto Rican Americans
C) Cuban Americans
D) Guatamalan Americans
Answer: B
Q2) Which is the best example of familialism?
A) Jennie's parents give her a lot of freedom to be with her peers.
B) Ricky highly values his parents' and grandparents' opinions.
C) Sammy trusts his family and therefore is also trusting of neighbors.
D) Mary has a strong work ethic and loves celebrations.
Answer: B
Q3) A leading cause of death among 15- to 19-year-old Native Americans is:
A) intravenous drug use.
B) suicide.
C) poor judgment due to alcohol use.
D) homicide.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Body Issues Physical Growth and
Health-Related Behaviors
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Q1) Ovaries are to females as ________ are to males.
A) androgens
B) estrogens
C) scrotums
D) testes
Q2) The adolescent boy's voice becomes lower because of rapid growth of the:
A) epiglottis.
B) larynx.
C) pharynx.
D) trachea.
Q3) Rachana is 22 years old and has not had a menstrual cycle in over 8 years.She is at risk for:
A) bone mineral loss.
B) high blood pressure.
C) dysmenorrhea.
D) all of the above
Q4) Describe the typical sequence and development of the female secondary sex characteristics.
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Q5) List and describe the functions of three pituitary hormones that bring about puberty.
Chapter 5: Cognitive Development: Improvements in Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making
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Q1) The third step in information processing is:
A) selection.
B) interpretation.
C) memory.
D) inference.
Q2) All of the following can be performed by the concrete operational child EXCEPT: A) associativity.
B) combinativity.
C) hypothetical-deductive thinking.
D) identity or nullifiability.
Q3) Adolescents tend to rely on:
A) affirmation rather than negation.
B) confirmation rather than elimination.
C) negation rather than affirmation.
D) interference rather than reasoning.
Q4) List and describe the focus of three approaches to the study of cognition.
Q5) List and describe four major aspects of formal operational thinking as described by Piaget.
Q6) Describe the type of mental operations that individuals are capable of using in each of Piaget's four stages. Page 7
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Chapter 6: Self-Concept, Identity, Ethnicity, and Gender
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Q1) According to Erikson,which 17-year-old is most likely to figure out successfully who he or she is?
A) Rudy, who is very self-restrained.
B) Arlo, whose parents have trained him from age five to be a professional baseball player.
C) Deborah, who constantly tries new activities and roles, yet hasn't decided on any of them.
D) Rashmi, who chooses not to initiate new activities.
Q2) Explain Tse's four-stage model of ethnic identity development.
Q3) According to Tse,children develop the concept of ethnicity in the following sequence:
A) unaware, ambivalent, emergence, incorporate.
B) ambivalent, unaware, emergence, consolidation.
C) unaware, incorporate, emergence, consolidation.
D) emergence, unaware, aware, developed.
Q4) Tracy wants most of all to be completely honest.This illustrates Strang's:
A) basic self-concept.
B) ideal self.
C) social self.
D) transitory self-concept.
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Chapter 7: The Development of Moral Values
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Q1) A person who believes that Heinz should not steal the drug because he may embarrass his family is at Kohlberg's ________ level of moral development. A) preconventional B) conventional C) postconventional D) neoconventional
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of Kohlberg's three levels of moral reasoning? A) Postconventional B) Conventional C) Preconventional D) Neoconventional
Q3) Explain the social-cognitive domain approach to moral reasoning.What are the different rules that the approach discusses? What has been found concerning parent-adolescent disagreements?
Q4) The ability to stand up for one's values in the face of opposition is called A) moral outrage. B) moral courage. C) values clarification. D) values demonstration.
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Chapter 8: Relationships with Family Members
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Q1) The most common form of maltreatment of children and adolescents is:
A) Emotional abuse.
B) Neglect.
C) Nonsexual physical abuse.
D) Sexual abuse.
Q2) Which of the following statements about adolescent conflict is FALSE?
A) Adolescents' social lives and customs are the most common topic of conflict.
B) Teenage children and their parents rarely disagree about basic moral values.
C) Adolescents tend to have more conflicts with their parents than younger children do.
D) Parent-adolescent relationships tend to contain more conflict than harmony.
Q3) List and describe the five different grandparenting styles discussed in the text.
Q4) Becoming independent and free enough to act on one's own is called:
A) behavioral autonomy.
B) positive autonomy.
C) emotional autonomy.
D) permissive autonomy.
Q5) Describe adolescents' sibling relationships in terms of both positive and negative outcomes.
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Chapter 9: Different Family Patterns
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Q1) In non-Hispanic Caucasian homes,the most common reason for adolescents living with one parent is:
A) death of a parent.
B) unwed single parent.
C) divorce.
D) parents living apart.
Q2) Custody of children after a divorce is comprised of two issues,which are:
A) decisional custody and joint custody.
B) residential custody and decisional custody.
C) joint custody and legal custody.
D) legal custody and residential custody.
Q3) Wallerstein and Blakeslee found that almost 50% of children whose parents divorced were worried,underachieving,and self-deprecating:
A) for about two years after the divorce.
B) only immediately after their parents' separation.
C) only when the divorce was adversarial.
D) even after they reached young adulthood.
Q4) Explain the differences between open adoptions and closed adoptions.
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Chapter 10: Being a Member of the Adolescent Subculture:
Activities and Interactions with Peers
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Q1) Approximately what percent of American teenagers report having Internet access at home?
A) 90
B) 80
C) 70
D) 60
Q2) Which of the following statements about daters versus nondaters is TRUE?
A) Daters have more autonomy from parents than do nondaters.
B) Casual daters feel closer to their other friends than do steady daters.
C) Daters who are emotionally distant from their parents tend to be less satisfied with their dating relationships than are those who are close to their parents.
D) all of the above
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a reason that credit card companies target college students?
A) People develop brand loyalty to the first credit card they get.
B) The cards have annual fees people must pay.
C) Students usually pay the minimum balance plus high interest rates.
D) Parents usually keep their adolescents from defaulting on their credit card bill.
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Chapter 11: Sexual Behaviors
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Q1) Discuss six of the ten explanations given in the text for why the U.S.has the highest teenage pregnancy rate of all industrialized nations (except for the Russian Federation).
Q2) When HIV gets in the bloodstream,it attacks:
A) erthrocytes.
B) megacaryocytes.
C) T-lymphocytes.
D) Z-antibodies.
Q3) Which of the following statements about adolescent contraceptive use is FALSE?
A) Gay teens are more likely than straight teens to use condoms.
B) Black teens tend to prefer condoms more than birth control pills.
C) White teens tend to prefer birth control pills more than condoms.
D) Older teens are more likely than younger teens to use birth control pills.
Q4) Explain some of the difficulties American teenage mothers and fathers have.
Q5) All of the following are ulterior motives for having sex EXCEPT:
A) to control behavior.
B) to express affection.
C) to build up one's ego.
D) to win or return favors.
Q6) Discuss the variety of different reasons adolescents do not use contraceptives.
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Chapter 12: Education and School
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Q1) What are the research findings concerning the roles of pregnancy and fatherhood in the high school dropout rate?
Q2) Approximately what percent of American high school students are home schooled?
A) 1
B) 7
C) 13
D) 26
Q3) What has research shown concerning public versus private schools?
Q4) What is the name for theme schools (such as those specializing in the arts)within the public school system?
A) Magnet schools
B) Charter schools
C) Tech-prep schools
D) Voucher schools
Q5) Discuss the differences between the Japanese educational system and the U.S.system? What are the pros and cons of the Japanese system?
Q6) Discuss the differences between a performance goal structure and a task mastery structure in schools.What has research found concerning the effectiveness of each?
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Chapter 13: Work and Vocation
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Q1) Which of the following groups of adolescents has the highest jobless rate?
A) African Americans
B) Hispanic Americans
C) Asian Americans
D) non-Hispanic White Americans
Q2) The cost/benefit ratio for adolescent employment depends on:
A) how many hours per week are spent at the job.
B) the nature of the job itself.
C) the number of weeks per year spent working.
D) all of the above
Q3) Which of the following statements about vocational choice is TRUE:
A) Low-SES youths have the same occupational aspirations as middle-SES youths.
B) Middle-SES youths tend to choose occupations with higher status than do lower-SES youths.
C) Even when separated from SES, race and ethnicity play a large role in occupational aspirations.
D) all of the above
Q4) List and explain five U.S.federal government limitations on hiring 14- to 15-year-olds.
Q5) List and explain the two components of Gottfredson's career development theory.
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Chapter 14: Adolescent Stress and Alienation
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Q1) Which of the following statements about runaways is TRUE?
A) The majority of intent runaways say they tried to make their family situation work but they failed in their attempt.
B) Runaway boys generally report that they have controlling and punitive parents.
C) For most adolescents running away is a relatively spontaneous decision.
D) all of the above
Q2) What percent of all U.S.violent crime arrests in 2006 were juveniles?
A) 5
B) 15
C) 30
D) 45
Q3) Describe and label the two classes of runaways and explain how they differ.
Q4) Transient runaways:
A) want to leave home permanently.
B) intend to return home.
C) have drug problems.
D) believe street life is glamorous.
Q5) What are the six different reasons Rotheram-Borus and her colleagues have identified for youths' running away?
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Chapter 15: Substance Abuse,Addiction,and Dependency
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Q1) Explain what stimulants do.What are some of the most commonly used ones?
Q2) Which neurotransmitter is associated with feelings of pleasure?
A) Serotonin
B) Endorphins
C) Dopamine
D) GABA
Q3) Which of the following is NOT one of the three types of inhalants discussed in the text?
A) Solvents
B) Gases
C) Sulphites
D) Nitrites
Q4) Which of the following is NOT an effective technique for antismoking education aimed at adolescents?
A) Having the program be peer-led rather than adult-led
B) Incorporating group discussion into the program
C) Basing the program primarily on increasing knowledge about the hazards of smoking
D) Having a schoolwide policy against tobacco use
Q5) As adolescents enter young adulthood,what happens to their alcohol use and why?
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