Exam 11: Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Personality and Sociocultural Development

Recent research suggests that the use of marijuana may be more dangerous than previously thought.

According to the text, the use of manufactured amphetamine drugs such as methamphetamine peaked in which year:

Girls who suffer from depression are less likely to become pregnant than girls who don't because when girls are depressed, they lose their interest in sexual behavior.

Which parenting style is associated with the most positive outcome for adolescent behavior?

Statistically, you should expect that delinquency rates would be highest in:

Eric Erikson saw the period of adolescence as a time in which teenagers try out various alternative identities as they attempt to sort through the available options and forge their sense of who they are.

Suppose you are reading statistics about a particular college. This college reports that about 30-40% of the student body has been treated for depression. Generalizing from statistics reported in the text, you would know that the students at this college are about ____ as likely to suffer from depression as are students nation-wide.

Based on large cross-cultural studies of adolescence, it seems clear that adolescence is a time of considerable "storm and stress" for most teenagers in developed nations.

According to the text, about percent of high school seniors reported using the drug Ecstasy in 2000 and percent reported using it in 2011?

Adolescence is a period of the lifespan normally characterized by increasing self-regulation and increasing interdependence with parents.

Which of the following has been shown to be the strongest predictor of depression in male and female adolescents:

The text suggests a set of four risk factors that are associated with adolescent suicide. Which of the following is NOT one of these risk factors?

Adolescents who grow up in families with permissive parents often become defiant and resentful, and may become dependent and anxious in the presence of authority figures.

According to the text, unintended pregnancy is ____ as common among girls who are depressed compared to non-depressed girls.

Since the mid-1950s, suicide rates for adolescents ages 15 to 19 have_________.

Generalizing from the text, during the early part of adolescence, the source of most conflicts between teenagers and their parents is which of the following issues?

Teenagers are most likely to turn to their parents, rather than their peers, for advice concerning which of the following?

In most typical U. S. high schools, a group of 4 or 5 of the best football players who are labeled as "Jocks" would be an example of a:

The adolescents who are most likely to take risks also tend to be the best students and to have good impulse control.

Linda's mother and father give her considerable freedom to choose her friends and activities, but they also pay careful attention to where she is, what she is doing, and whom she is with. Her parents' attention to knowing about Linda's activities is what researchers mean by the term: