Psychology of Adolescence
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Psychology of Adolescence explores the complex developmental changes that occur during the transition from childhood to adulthood. The course examines the biological, cognitive, emotional, and social transformations characteristic of adolescence, with an emphasis on identity formation, family and peer relationships, and the influence of culture and environment. Students will investigate contemporary issues such as mental health, risk-taking behaviors, and the impact of media, using empirical research to understand challenges and opportunities faced by adolescents in modern society.
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Development Infancy Through Adolescence 1st Edition by Laurence Steinberg
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Chapter 1: The Study of Child Development
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Q1) Sigmund Freud based most of his theoretical work on intensive studies of a very limited number of people.The method he used was
A)correlational study.
B)case study.
C)experimental study.
D)quasi-experimental study.
Answer: B
Q2) Sales of both bathing suits and ice cream tend to rise in the warmer months of the year and fall in the colder months.This means that bathing suit sales are
A)positively correlated with ice cream sales.
B)negatively correlated with ice cream sales.
C)driving ice cream sales.
D)driven by ice cream sales.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Nature With Nurture
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Q1) The fact that a child's parents provide both her genetic inheritance and her living environment is an example of
A)an active gene-environment correlation.
B)a passive gene-environment correlation.
C)an evocative gene-environment correlation.
D)a recessive gene-environment correlation.
Answer: B
Q2) The study of human development before birth is called A)fetology.
B)histology.
C)anthropology.
D)embryology.
Answer: D
Q3) The people in your neighborhood who are your role models would be considered a part of your A)microsystem. B)mesosystem.
C)macrosystem.
D)exosystem.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Conception,prenatal Development,and Birth
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Q1) The fluid-filled membrane that protects the embryo is called the A)fetal sac.
B)amniotic sac.
C)in vitro saC.
D)zygotic sac.
Answer: B
Q2) In the absence of specific hormonal signals,embryos will default to developing _____ genitals.
A)male
B)female
C)both male and female
D)neither male nor female
Answer: B
Q3) Sickle-cell anemia is
A)due to an error in meiosis.
B)due to an error in mitosis.
C)carried by a recessive gene.
D)carried by a dominant gene.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Physical Development in Infancy
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Q1) If a child is a "late" developer,he
A)will continue to lag behind other children his age.
B)will eventually catch up to other children his age.
C)will eventually surpass other children his age.
D)may catch up,lag behind,or surpass other children his age.
Q2) A child's normal development is artificially delayed.The impediment is then removed,and she "catches up" in growth,demonstrating the basic growth principle of A)directionality.
B)independence of systems.
C)canalization.
D)eugenics.
Q3) The fact that infants' brains can be shaped by sensory experiences demonstrates the idea of A)genetic predisposition.
B)evolutionary psychology.
C)brain plasticity.
D)child prodigies.
Q4) List and describe an infant's basic reflexes.Explain how an infant's reflexes are indicators of evolutionary adaptability.
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Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy
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Q1) Japanese mothers tend to emphasize _____ more than American mothers.
A)interactive communication-based play activities
B)excellence-oriented play activities
C)options-limiting play activities
D)self-directed play activities
Q2) According to Jean Piaget,the sensorimotor period was made up of _____ stages.
A)2
B)4
C)6
D)8
Q3) According to Jean Piaget,the two processes involved in adaptation are
A)assimilation and habituation.
B)assimilation and accommodation.
C)habituation and accommodation.
D)habituation and the novelty response.
Q4) Explain how parents' ways of interacting with their children during play influence the children's type of play,and the cognitive and social results of their play.
Q5) Explain the process of adaptation outlined by Jean Piaget.Give examples to support your description.
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Chapter 6: Socioemotional Development in Infancy
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Q1) The birth of a sibling often predicts
A)an increase in a child's attachment to his or her mother.
B)a decrease in a child's attachment to his or her mother.
C)no change in a child's attachment to his or her mother.
D)a conversion from secure attachment to disorganized attachment to his or her mother.
Q2) The social referencing behavior of infants
A)will work with any other person.
B)is limited to their mothers.
C)is limited to their fathers.
D)is limited to their parents.
Q3) The type of interactions in which a parent and baby are focused on events taking place in the environment is called
A)object-oriented.
B)Rhesus-type-B-oriented.
C)affectivity-oriented.
D)social-orienteD.
Q4) List the order in which infants' primary and secondary emotions typically develop,and describe how these emotions are expressed.Explain why these emotions seem to appear in this order.
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Chapter 7: Physical Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) The _____ is the part of the brain that controls reasoning and executive functions.
A)frontal cortex.
B)parietal lobe.
C)motor cortex.
D)occipital lobe.
Q2) Most children who awaken during the night
A)will comfort themselves and fall back asleep.
B)need a parent to come in and reassure them.
C)should have a glass of warm milk before going back to sleep.
D)will have behavioral problems later in life.
Q3) When 5-year-old Ken is playing with his puzzles and reading to his younger sister,he is engaging in activities that promote
A)synaptic pruning.
B)neuropathology.
C)dendritic axonia.
D)synaptogenesis.
Q4) Explain how children's temperaments and attachment styles affect their ability to handle stress.
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Chapter 8: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Information stored in long-term memory usually lasts
A)for a few minutes.
B)for a few days.
C)for a few months.
D)for a lifetime.
Q2) Researchers have found that children from poorer families generally
A)have much larger vocabularies than children from wealthier families.
B)have much smaller vocabularies than children from wealthier families.
C)have the same vocabularies as children from wealthier families.
D)have not yet been compared to children from wealthier families.
Q3) Anything that stands for something other than itself is a A)classification.
B)symbol.
C)conservation task.
D)logical anomaly.
Q4) One way to measure a child's ability to focus his attention is the A)Brown-Peterson Procedure.
B)Continuous Performance Task.
C)Stroop Test.
D)Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
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Chapter 9: Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Explain how parents can use scaffolding to help children develop emotional intelligence and appropriate emotional responses and displays.
Q2) Little Tusa sees a candy wrapper on the sidewalk.She picks it up and throws it in the trash.Tusa is demonstrating A)externalizing behavior.
B)internalizing behavior.
C)instrumental aggression.
D)prosocial behavior
Q3) Kele believes that he has broken his friend's iPod.He hasn't said anything,but his shoulders are hunched and he won't make eye contact with his friend.Kele is showing physical signs of A)empathy.
B)compliance. C)guilt.
D)pride.
Q4) Explain how siblings can influence each other's interactions with adults and other non-related children.
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Chapter 10: Physical Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) As Jumoke's young male brain develops during middle childhood,changes are concentrated in areas dealing with
A)spatial-visual discrimination.
B)gross motor movement.
C)fine motor skills.
D)regulation of autonomic functions.
Q2) Based on what is currently known about childhood obesity,which of the following children is most at risk?
A)Bela,who plays in a youth lacrosse league
B)Elena,who eats mostly home-cooked meals
C)Vasile,who buys breakfast and lunch in the school cafeteria
D)Olga,who lives next door to a city playground
Q3) Experts recommend that school-age children engage in a minimum of _____ minutes of vigorous physical activity every day.
A)15
B)30
C)60
D)90
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Chapter 11: Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) A person's _____ memory contains information such as the names of people,places,or things.
A)declarative
B)procedural
C)verbatim
D)gist
Q2) Monisha is 7 years old.It is likely that she'll be able to hold approximately _____ numbers in her working memory.
A)4
B)5
C)6
D)7
Q3) Even though Jacinto can't tell you his friend Maxmiliao's IM address,his fingers always seem to punch it in correctly when he's holding his Blackberry.The address seems to be stored in Jacinto's _____ memory.
A)declarative
B)procedural
C)verbatim
D)gist
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Chapter 12: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Although Abayomi is the star of her school's chess team,her parents don't think that's an appropriate activity for girls,so they criticize her for being on the team and not doing "real" girl things.Erik Erikson would warn that Abayomi's parents may be giving her a strong sense of A)shame.
B)stagnation. C)inferiority. D)guilt.
Q2) When a more powerful child repeatedly hits,teases,or humiliates a particular weaker child,then he or she is _____ the weaker child.
A)being prosocial to B)being an agonist to C)being hedonistic with D)being a bully to
Q3) Social contagion theory is most similar to A)Albert Bandura's Observational Learning Theory. B)Jean Jacques Rousseau's ideas of natural children. C)John B.Watson's theories of conditioning. D)The Puritans' attitudes about being born in original sin.
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Chapter 13: Physical Development in Adolescence
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Q1) ______ is not a reason why so many American adolescents are either obese or at risk for obesity.
A)Computer use
B)The secular trend
C)The availability of fruit juices and snacks
D)The availability of fast food
Q2) One primary sex characteristic for males is
A)the growth of facial hair.
B)the growth of live sperm in the testes.
C)the growth of activity in the oil and sweat glands.
D)the deepening of the voice.
Q3) By the time they reach the age of 18,approximately ________ of adolescents have had heterosexual intercourse.
A)60%
B)50%
C)40%
D)30%
Q4) Explain the psychosocial outcomes for early-maturing girls and boys.
Q5) Explain why many sexually active adolescents do not use contraceptives.How might you counteract this behavior?
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Chapter 14: Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Which of the following students is demonstrating an external achievement attribution?
A)Hippolytos,who believes he got a good grade on the math test because he studied very hard
B)Damaris,who believes that she got a good grade on the math test because she got lucky when answering most of the questions
C)Zeno,who believes that he failed the math test because he was playing video games instead of studying
D)Theodora,who believes that she failed the math test because she was trying to study while text messaging a friend about her upcoming date with Hippolytos
Q2) Peer's influence at school and in the neighborhood
A)is always detrimental to adolescents' scholastic achievement.
B)is always going to boost adolescents' scholastic achievement.
C)may boost or lower adolescents' scholastic achievement,depending on the values of the group.
D)is less important to scholastic achievement than parents' influence.
Q3) Explain how adolescents' cognitive development affects their views on religion and spirituality.
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Chapter 15: Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) A crowd is
A)a group of cliques that interact on a regular basis.
B)a small group of close-knit friends with similar interests.
C)a large group of peers whose membership is based on stereotyped behaviors.
D)a group put together by the school for a particular activity.
Q2) Adolescents tend to spend approximately _____ of their time with their peers.
A)40%
B)50%
C)60%
D)70%
Q3) The self-image of older adolescents as they enter adulthood is
A)prone to rapid fluctuations in both sexes.
B)prone to rapid fluctuations in girls.
C)prone to rapid fluctuations in boys.
D)relatively stable.
Q4) What is a clique? How does belonging to a clique help adolescents resolve the identity crisis described by Erik Erikson?
Q5) Describe the four sets of risk factors for attempting suicide in adolescence.Discuss ways to reduce adolescent suicide by dealing with these problems.
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