Questions:

1. Keenan studies hard in his business classes because he knows if he graduates with honors he'll be assured of getting a job with a top accounting firm. Keenan's behavior exemplifies flow. intrinsic motivation. mastery orientation. self-determination. extrinsic motivation.
   
   
2. Ms. Moore, a middle school teacher, wants to give students more choice and more opportunities for personal responsibility in her class. According to research, what is the likely outcome of Ms. Moores approach to teaching? Increased intrinsic motivation. Increased extrinsic motivation. More frequent external attributions. Hightened performance orientation. Learned helplessness.
   
   
3. Joel is apathetic aabout doing a task. According to research, Joel most likely preceives his skill at the task to be ____ and the challenge of the task to be ____. low; low low; high high; medium high; low high; high
   
   
4. Adolescents who attribute their success to internal reasons are more likely than those who attribute their success to external reasons to have a helpless orientation. have high self-esteem. try hard in the future. have self-determination. achieve flow.
   
   
5. Mastery-oriented adolescents see failure as a reason to stop trying. an opportunity for new learning. due to stable, external attributes. a reflection of their lack of ability. a barrier to their goal of winning.
   
   
6. Hal is performance-oriented. What sustains him? Improvement External rewards A sense of efficacy Internal attributions Winning
   
   
7. Which of the following is most similar to intrinsic motivation? Attribution theory Performance orientation Self-efficacy Helpless orientation Self-handicapping strategies
   
   
8. Having low expectations for success and giving up at the first sign of difficulty best defines helpless orientation. anxiety. failure syndrome. a self-handicapping strategy. performance orientation.
   
   
9. What is the difference between attributions and self-handicapping strategy? Attributions have to do with success and self-handicapping with failure. Attributions occur after performance and self-handicapping before performance. Attributions aren't under control of the person, but self-handicapping is. Attributions are cognitive while self-handicapping is emotional. All of the above identify difference between attribution and self-handicapping.
   
   
10. According to Ginzberg's developmental career choice theory, adolescents between the ages of 11 and 17 progressively evaluate three aspects of career choice. The order in which these aspects occur is
capacities, values, interests. interests, values, capacities. values, interests, capacities. capacities, interests, values. interests, capacities, values


11. Beth has narrowed her career options to being a therapist or a lawyer and is now seeking additional education that will help her to eventually enter one of those professions. She is in Super's career self-concept phase of
consolodation. implementation. stabilization. crystallization. specification.


12. Allen is a scientist who enjoys spending many hours each day alone in his laboratory. According to Holland's theory, which personality type best describes Allen?
Realistic Conventional Investigative Artistic Enterprising


13. Research has found that high school students lack both information about the educational requirements for the careers in which they are interested and information about the
skills necessary for interviewing for a job in the career area. likelihood of getting a job in their desired career. likely salaries associated with their desired careers. types of interests they should have for their desired careers. negative aspects of their career choice.


14. Chad is in the 11th grade and works part time. His parents are concerned that his school grades may suffer as a result of his part-time work. Based on the research cited in the textbook, what is the maximum number of hours Chad should work during a week?
5 8 15 20 28


15. Joe goes to a large high school where there is a group of other adolescents like him who are taking courses having to do with business and finance. His friend Sean is part of a group of students who are taking courses having to do with science and engineering. Joe never has any classes with Sean. This college-and-career approach is called
schools-within-schools. a single-theme school. a technology school. majors, clusters, and pathways. careen-segregated schools


16. According to the psychological approach, an adolescent's drinking problem would most likely be attributed to
genetic predispositions for substance abuse. a family history of alcoholism. inadequate coping strategies. physiological illness or disease. poor quality of neighborhood.


17. Veronica has developed an eating disorder. What term best describes the problem she is exhibiting?
Developmental psychopathology Internalization problem Externalization problem Conduct disorder Status offense


18. A large city is establishing a new mental health clinic for adolescents. Adolescents with which of the following problems will be referred to the clinic most often?
Violence Eating disorders Conduct disorders Depression Substance abuse


19. According to research cited in the textbook, which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics that resilient children and adolescents possess?
Attending effective schools High self-efficacy Authoritative parents Sociable, easygoing disposition One or two very close same-age friends


20. Tom feels that he needs to smoke marijuana before going to school every day to help him cope with his teachers and classmates. Tom is experiencing
withdrawal. major depressive disorder. tolerance. psychological dependence. the medical model.


21. Two strong predictors of alcohol abuse are
having few friends and being a nonconformist. being an anticonformist and being exposed to peers who misuse alcohol. susceptibility to peer pressure and having a negative body image. having a negative body image and being a nonconformist. being exposed to peers who misuse alcohol and susceptibility to peer pressure.


22. Three traits have been found as early as age 10 to be associated with alcoholism at age 28. Which of the following is one of those traits?
Having an explosive temper Not putting forth effort Needing constant activity and challenge Becoming easily frustrated and irritated Having low self-esteem


23. Comparing the alcohol use of youth who go to college to youth who do not go to college, which of the following statements is true?
Both groups increase their alcohol use after high school. Both groups decrease their alcohol use after high school. For both groups those who drank in high school continue to drink and those who didn't drink in high school still don't drink. Those who go to college increase their drinking, and those not in college drink at the rate they did in high school. Those in college increase their drinking and those not in college decrease their drinking.


24. Which of the following statements about cigarette smoking is false?
Students who participate in sports are less likely to be heavy smokers than students who do not play sports. Paternal smoking is more strongly related to adolescent smoking than maternal smoking. Smoking in adolescence causes permanent genetic changes that increase cancer risk even if a person quits smoking. How early in life smoking starts is more important than how much a person smokes when is comes to genetic damage. Cigarette smoking is linked to emotional problems in adolescents.


25. David is experiencing impotence, premature baldness, breast enlargement, bursts of anger, and severe mood swings. What drug is he most likely using?
Depressants Cocaine Anabolic steroids Opiates Hallucinogens


26. Juvenile delinquency is best defined as
a range of behaviors in which the adolescent engages in both index and status offenses. a range of behaviors in which the adolescent engages in index or status offenses. the behaviors that combine int the clinical diagnosis of conduct disorder. a range of behaviors, from those that are socially unacceptable to criminal. any act that is against the law performed by someone under the age of 18.


27. A recent study of juvenile justice found that
trying adolescents as adults decreased their crime rate. trying adolsecents as adults increased their crime rate. trying adolescents as adults was not related to their crime rate. female judges gave harsher sentences than male judges. male judges gave harsher sentences than female judges.


28. Adolescents who go through puberty at the same time as they make the transition from elementary school to middle or junior high school are more likely to report
engaging in status offenses. engaging in index offenses. experiencing depression. using marijuana. being diagnosed as having a conduct disorder.


29. Zack, age 15, is slowly becoming a juvenile delinquent. One important thing that his parents can do to help him not become delinquent
let him make more of his own decisions. help him find a good part-time job. turn him in to the juvenile authorities. get him tutoring to help him in school. monitor his whereabouts.


30. What is the most frequently cited factor associated with adolescent suicide?
Low self-esteem Sense of hoplessness High self-blame Depression Loneliness