Exam 16: Adolescence: Social and Emotional Development

A) Amanda, a teenager, attempts to commit suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
B) Tina, a primary school student, is often rebuked for truancy.
C) Ted, a young adult, is sexually intimate with his friend Bob.
D) Alex, a 20-year-old, is often fined for over speeding.

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A) Monika, a woman who is not sexually aroused by men but fantasizes about being sexually intimate with her friend Jenna
B) Hannah, a young woman who has enjoyed sexual intimacy with several men in her life and is about to marry one of them
C) Kelly, a girl who is confused about her sexual identity and feels that she might be a man trapped in a woman's body
D) Lillian, a young woman who is sexually intimate with her boyfriend Justin as well as with her colleague Judy, an older female

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A) the stage of identity diffusion
B) a psychological moratorium
C) the stage of foreclosure
D) ego transcendence

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A) Chris, a 15-year-old, committing homicide during a fight in the high school campus
B) Sebastian, a 12-year-old, running away from home after an argument with his parents
C) Kimberly, a 16-year-old, exploring her sexuality with multiple partners
D) Ariana, a 13-year-old with a homosexual orientation, falling in love with a girl in her class

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A) Parents and peers seem to exert influence on different domains.
B) Parental influence is lesser on girls than on boys.
C) Peer influence decreases drastically, whereas parent influence increases during adolescence.
D) Parents and peers are usually competing influences.

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A) have close relationships with their parents
B) face trouble communicating with their parents
C) have sexually active peers
D) experience precocious puberty and have older friends

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A) Erik Erikson assumed that women were more likely than men to reject the minority culture for the dominant culture.
B) Erik Erikson assumed that a woman's relationships with her peers did not play a role in her identity development.
C) Erik Erikson assumed that relationships were more important to women's development of identity than occupational matters.
D) Erik Erikson assumed that men, unlike women, were less concerned with ideological matters during adolescence.

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A) moratorium
B) foreclosure
C) identity achievement
D) identity diffusion

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A) marital rape
B) sexual promiscuity
C) robbery
D) kidnapping

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A) early adolescence
B) late childhood
C) mid-adolescence
D) late adulthood

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A) Girls are much more likely than boys to engage in delinquent behavior.
B) Robbery is an example of a status offense.
C) Crimes committed by adolescents from minority groups are considered status offenses.
D) Girls are more likely than boys to commit offenses such as running away.

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