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Which psychologist promoted the theory that addresses Middle childhood children's focus on meeting the challenges presented by the world? |
Erikson |
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Parents can help break the cycle of low self esteem in a child by using a(n)________child-rearing style |
Authoritative |
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The term that refers to the complex relationship between self-esteem and minority group status comes from? |
Social identity theory |
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According to psychologist William Damon, a child's view of friendship passes through all of the states below EXCEPT? |
Basing friendship on intelligence |
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According to Damon, the first stage of building friendship for middle-school age children is? |
Basing friendship on others behavior. Friendships provide more security than relationships with parents a D other family members. |
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Status is |
The evaluation of a role or person by other relevant members of a group. |
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High status children tend to do all of the following except |
Form friendships with lower class or unpopular children. |
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What is the term for the collection of social skills that permits individuals to perform successfully in social settings? |
Social competence |
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Research indicates that popular children's hare the following personality characteristics except |
Being domineering |
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Compared to less popular children, popular children are more likely to do all of the following except |
Disregard others emotional experiences |
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What is one of the newest forms of bullying |
Cyber-bullying |
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What does the term border work mean |
Middle school boys and girls who occasionally enter each others territories with romantic overtones. |
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The segregation of friendships according to gender occurs |
In almost all societies and in nonindustriized societies. |
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The lack of cross gender interaction in the middle childhood years mean that |
Boys and girls friendships are restricted to members of their own sex. |
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Sally, who is a middle school age girl, wants her friend, Beth to go to the movies with her. Which of the following statements is Sally likely to use to get her friend to go? |
Let's go to the movies |
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During the middle school years all of the following occur except? |
Peer relationships are more influential than family relationships |
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By definition a remarried couple that has at least one step child living with them is called a |
Blended family |
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When living in a Blended family, roles and expectations can be unclear and this is called |
Role ambiguity |
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The word orphanage has been replaced by the words |
Foster home |
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Which of the following statements immediately follows childhood. |
Adolescents |
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What is them term for the onset of menstruation? |
Puberty |
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What is the most obvious sign of Puberty in girls. |
On set of menarche |
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All of the following are true of today's Adolescents as compared to the Adolescents in the 19th century except |
Adolescents are exhibiting advanced levels of intellectual and emotional growth much earlier |
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In boys the penis and scrotum begin to grow at an accelerated date around age______and reach adult size in___? |
12, 3-4 years |
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A primary sex characteristic in boys is |
Spermarche |
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By drinking milk during their teenage years, girls can consume enough required_____to avoid____in their lives. |
Calcium, osteoporosis |
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Which of the following is least likely to participate in exercise? |
An 18 year old African American female |
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Which of the following is the term for a servere eatinf disorder in which individuals refuse to eat, while denying that their behavior and appearance, which may become Skeletal, are out of the ordinary? |
Anorexia nervosa |
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Which of the following terms relates to an eating disorder characterized by binges on large quantities of food, followed by purges of the food through vomiting or the use of laxatives? |
Bulimia |
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Because independent measures of achievement, such as sat scores, have not risen in the past decade, but overall grades in school have risen over the past decade the most likely explanation for this is, |
Instructors have become more lenient awarding higher grades for the same performance know as grade inflation |
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A study to examine the context of Adolescents MySpace pages. Results revealed Adolescents |
We're increasing their self concept |
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All of the following are factors to consider regarding the gap in educational achievement between u.s students and other students around the world except. |
U. S parents and students do not care as much about education as do parents and students from other countries |
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Which of the following students is likely to demonstrate the greatest academic achievement |
Asian American |
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Which of the following youth people are least likely to drop out if high school prior to graduation in the u.s |
A teenaged Asian American make |
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What percentage of college students report having an alcoholic drink in the past 30 days |
75% |
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A person with alcohol problems who has learned to depend on alcohol and is unable to control his or her drinking is an |
Alcoholic |
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Approximately how many cigarettes does an Adolescent have to smoke to increase his or her chance of becoming an addicted and habitual smoker for life |
10 cigarettes |
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All of the following are reasons why Adolescents become addicted to smoking except. |
Adolescents think that smoking cigarettes is safer than using illicit drugs |
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Which of the following STIs were recorded by ancient historians? |
Gonorrhea and syphilis |
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Which of the following is not a primary factor in determining a typical Adolescent females self esteem |
Fearlessness |
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Some developmentalists have considered the combination of race and gender as simultaneously affecting an Adolescents self esteem, thus coining the term |
Ethgender |
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According to Erikson the period during which teenagers seek to determine what is unique and distinctive about themselves is called, |
Identity - versus-identity confusion stage |
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The term masterbation refers to? |
Serial self stimulation |
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The age at which Adolescents have sexual interconnected for the first time Is_____and______have had sex before the age of 20 |
Declining, 80% |
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Of a person is attracted to another person of the same sex, this is |
Homosexuality |
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When a person pursues sexual reassignment surgery because they feel as through they were born with the wrong physical sex this is called |
Transgendered |