Final Exam

Question 1

True or False: Fears, worries, and concerns about “day-to-day living” issues tend to increase and then peak in middle adolescence.

Answer 1

False.

Question 2

True or False: Although adolescence is not invariably/inevitably a tumultuous time of life, it is one of somewhat heightened emotionality.

Answer 2

True.

Question 3

True or False: When the level of Gonadotropic Hormones circulating in the blood system reach a critical value as read by the Hypothalamus, the Hypothalamus sends a message to the Pituitary to reduce its production of THS and Growth Hormone.

Answer 3

False. When the level of SEX HORMONES circulating in the blood system reach a critical value as read by the Hypothalamus, the Hypothalamus sends a message to the Pituitary to reduce its production of TSH and Growth Hormone.

Question 4

True or False: Athleticism contributes to the popularity and acceptability of adolescent and young adult males. It also provides the same benefits to females provided that the activities engaged in aren’t “too masculine.”

Answer 4

True.

Question 5

True or False: Among a group of preadolescents who are the same height, those who reach sexual maturity later will tend to be taller than those who reach sexual maturity earlier.

Answer 5

True.

Question 6

True or False: Fears, worries, and concerns about social acceptance by others tend to increase throughout adolescence, peak in very early adulthood, and then start to decline.

Answer 6

False.

Question 7

True or False: The passage of time is useful in describing development, but it is not at all useful in explaining that development.

Answer 7

True.

Question 8

True or False: During pubescence, the maximum growth rate typically precedes the first sign of changes in the primary and secondary sexual characteristics.

Answer 8

False.

Question 9

True or False: The relationship between age at sexual maturity and general adjustment is straight forward; earlier is better than average is better than late.

Answer 9

False.

Question 10

True or False: By the end of adolescence, males tend to be better than females in measures of agility while females tend to be better than males in measures of controlled movement and balance.

Answer 10

True.

Question 11

True or False: According to research done on Keith Davis’ Two Factor Theory of Love, “Passionate Love” is a more powerful force than is “Viability of the Relationship” during adolescence and the first half of young adulthood.

Answer 11

True.

Question 12

True or False: Early sexual maturity tends to be associated with a relatively high degree of physiological reactivity to emotion arousing stimuli.

Answer 12

True.

Question 13

True or False: During adolescence, the GPA of an individual’s best friend is a better predictor of his/her academic performance than is either intelligence or level of cognitive development.

Answer 13

True.

Question 14

True or False: While Piaget sees cognitive development as a progressively developing single, global entity for everyone, both Bandura and Vygotsky see it as a see it as a collection of multiple skills that are tied to the specific problems and tasks that different individuals have confronted.

Answer 14

True.

Question 15

The earliest form of romantic-erotic relationship is the “crush”–usually with someone older. The theorist who best deals with this fact is ________________.

Answer 15

Sigmund Freud.

Question 16

Which of the following statements is incorrect:
A. The vast majority of high school and college students report that there is little is any value in learning just for the sake of learning.
B. Girls are about 2 years ahead of boys in skeletal development at age 14.
C. The part of the body that has the most growing to do during adolescence is the legs.
D. “Adolescence” means “to become mature.”
E. The question is misleading since all the alternatives are correct.

Answer 16

E. The question is misleading since all the alternatives are correct.

Question 17

Which of the following is not a change in adolescent behavior that is typically associated with the formation of an "imaginary audience:"
A. Sulking
B. Increase in modesty
C. Feelings of being special or unique
D. Increase in self-reflection
E. Feelings of shame

Answer 17

A. Sulking.

Question 18

True or False: “Securely attached” adolescents and young adults do not “fall in love” as easily and as often as do “insecurely attached” ones.

Answer 18

True.

Question 19

Ture or False: Young adolescents will have a stronger tendency than people of other ages to become angry whenever anyone states an opinion that differs from their own.

Answer 19

True.

Question 20

True or False: In general, the smaller and the more intimate the adolescent-young adult peer group, the more influence it has on the individual.

Answer 20

True.

Question 21

True or False: The peak age for reporting having fallen in true love for the first time is 17.

Answer 21

True.

Question 22

True or False: Relative to boys, adolescent girls are more concerned with shared feelings and less concerned with confidentiality in their friendships.

Answer 22

False.

Question 23

True or False: About 20% of adolescents behave in ways that are troubling to mental health professionals. Only about 1/2 of these people get help, and the research tells us that they really needed it and weren’t “just experiencing growing pain or going through a stage.”

Answer 23

True.

Question 24

The “Visibility-Invisibility” model helps us understand why acquaintances are so often totally shocked to discover that someone they know has committed some horrific deed.

Answer 24

True.

Question 25

True or False: Relatively early sexually maturing individuals tend to have relatively narrower shoulders, broader hips, and shorter legs than their later maturing counterparts.

Answer 25

True.

Question 26

True or False: The majority of developmental-psychological theories tend to deal with all or most aspects of development but only over a limited period of time like adolescence.

Answer 26

False.

Question 27

True or False: The comparative number of males and females who possess “negative” states, traits, and conditions shifts across age from a clear preponderance of males to a more equal ratio. This shift tells us that as we grow older, males become less vulnerable or females become increasingly vulnerable or both.

Answer 27

False.

Question 28

True or False: We know that the likelihood of becoming sexually active increases with increased age during adolescence and young adulthood. For males the single best predictor is testosterone levels while for females it is the method(s) used in rearing them.

Answer 28

False.

Question 29

True or False: While “activist” and “alienated” youth tend to share the same general value system, their family background and motivations tend to be very different.

Answer 29

True.

Question 30

True or False: While the middle range of conformity is positively correlated with good adjustment, deviation from the peer group is not per se highly correlated with poor adjustment.

Answer 30

True.

Question 31

True or False: In regard to friendships, young adult females then to remain like they were in late adolescence while the males tend to become more like those of females.

Answer 31

True.

Question 32

Which of the following statements about “heightened emotionality” is incorrect:
A. High physiological reactives will show less outward emotion than their low physiological reactive counterparts.
B. “Externalizers” are more likely to “act out” their strong emotions than are “Internalizers.”
C. Early sexual maturers show less outward emotion than their later maturing counterparts.
D. “Continuous Growth” adolescents will experience and show less emotion than their “Surgent” or “Tumultuous” counterparts.
E. This question is misleading since all five statements are correct.

Answer 32

D. “Continuous Growth” adolescents will experience and show less emotion than their “Surgent” or “Tumultuous” counterparts.

Question 33

"A struggle for control between parent and child with an overlay of either seeking love and approval or expressing anger" is considered to be the dynamic underlying which of the following psychopathologies:
A. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
B. Antisocial Personality Disorder
C. Depression
D. Schizophrenia
E. Eating Disorders

Answer 33

E. Eating Disorders.

Question 34

Which theorist says that "acquiring a set of values and an ethical system that will server as behavioral guidelines" is an important developmental task for adolescents:
A. Freud
B. Kingsley Davis
C. Robert Havinghurst
D. Margaret Mead
E. Erik Erikson

Answer 34

C. Robert Havinghurst.

Question 35

True or False: The passage of time is very useful in describing development, but it’s not at all useful in explaining that development.

Answer 35

True.

Question 36

True or False: Normal variation in the duration of pubescence is as few as 2-3 years in some individuals and as long as 5-7 years in others.

Answer 36

False.

Question 37

True or False: Developmental psychologists who work from the Organismic World View tends to use nonscientific methods of study, think qualitatively, and look for “material” and/or “sufficent-efficient” causes/explanations.

Answer 37

False.

Question 38

True or False: With regard to motor skills/athletic ability, early sexual maturity is better than average is better than late for males while average is better than early is better than late for females. There is some variation in the pattern for females depending upon the particular sport involved.

Answer 38

True.

Question 39

True or False: One’s gender role preference can be either male, female, or undifferentiated.

Answer 39

False.

Question 40

True or False: A major implication of the Dialectic World View on psychological development is that knowledge gained from the study of your instructor’s generation of adolescents/young adults might not suffice to explain the development of your generation.

Answer 40

True.

Question 41

True or False: One example of the general principle that girls mature before boys is that they are 2 years in advance of boys in skeletal development at age 14 and 3 years in advance by the time it’s about over.

Answer 41

True.

Question 42

True or False: For individuals who reach puberty at the same time, those who were bigger prior to puberty tend to remain so.

Answer 42

True.

Question 43

True or False: Relatively early sexually maturing individuals tend to have relatively narrower shoulders, broader hips, and shorter legs than their later maturing counterparts.

Answer 43

True.

Question 44

True or False: Some educators worry that the information we have about adolescents psychological development is less “scientifically” acquired and more “non scientifically” acquired.

Answer 44

True.

Question 45

True or False: The strength or intensity of one’s attachment to caretaker(s) and the way that attachment is structured and functions are produced by different factors.

Answer 45

True.

Question 46

True or False: Everyone has a mixture of “male” and “female” sex hormones. In sexually mature females that ratio is around 1:2.5; in sexually mature males it is about 7:1.

Answer 46

True.

Question 47

True or False: About twice as many adolescents report that peers are their primary source of information on sex than report that it’s their parents.

Answer 47

True.

Question 48

True or False: While the sex ration of male to female sex hormones is a powerful determinant of one’s sexual orientation, it is testosterone that is the libidinal hormone for both genders.

Answer 48

False.

Question 49

Which one of the following theorists posits that "lust versus intimacy" is a major developmental task for adolescents and young adults in our society (and problematic for females):
A. Freud
B. Erikson
C. Lewin
D. K. Davis
E. Sullivan

Answer 49

E. Sullivan

Question 50

Within the past 30 years or so there has been a dramatic increase in both the percent of high school graduates who go to college and in the median age at which people marry. Such statistics are most meaningful to whose theory:
A. Lewin's
B. Sullivan's
C. Erikson's
D. Havighurst's
E. K. Davis'

Answer 50

E. K. Davis’

Question 51

Young adolescents tend to adopt rather extreme positions on complex issues while ignoring the "grey" areas between the extremes. The theory that best explains this phenomenon is:
A. E. Erikson's
B. K. Lewin's
C. R. Havighurst's
D. S. Freud's
E. M. Mead's

Answer 51

B. K. Lewin’s