Self-esteem has been mistakenly touted as the “holy grail” of mental health, and this has meant
that
Many preventive and remedial efforts have
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Many therapeutic approaches employ social cognitive strategies to improve social skills.
Many therapists have focused too much on the importance of their own self-esteem.
Preventative efforts have never embraced a “skills first” approach.
A coping style which has been linked to higher levels of depression among adolescent girls and women is
rumination.
distraction.
support seeking.
withdrawal.
High levels of parental monitoring and control are associated with which of the following
outcomes regardless of ethnicity or social class?
More drug use but less involvement in other criminal activity among adolescents.
More deviant behavior and drug use among adolescents.
More gang membership among adolescents.
Less deviant behavior and drug use among adolescents.
One gender-related characteristic of peer evaluations is that
Boys are more likely than girls to be rejected for behaving in gender-inconsistent ways.
Girls are more likely than boys to be rejected for behaving in gender-inconsistent ways.
Whether or not children behave in gender-inconsistent ways seems to have no effect on peer evaluations.
Gender-inconsistent behavior leads to equally strong rejection for both boys and for girls
Question 5
2 / 2 pts Stanley is 7 years old. His parents are quite concerned about his school progress. Although he has begun to learn to read, he reverses some letters when he writes. Based on research, Stanley’s school counselor should tell his parents that
Brain development can be quite uneven in childhood and as a result, it is not unusual for children to show poor performance in isolated skills.
Stanley almost certainly has a serious learning disorder which requires immediate intervention.
If a child shows normal progress in other reading related skills, like Stanley does, the child is probably faking the letter reversals in a bid for attention
Stanley needs glasses.
Which of the following statements is FALSE with respect to the moral self:
Adults who lead exemplary lives tend to have clear beliefs about what is right and those beliefs are central to their identity.
Moral sense is the capacity to make judgements about what is right, versus what is wrong and preferring to act in ways that are considered right.
Moral development and religious experience are equivalent, in order to develop morally, own must have a religious affiliation.
Morality involves self-control, which includes inhibiting one’s selfish or aggressive impulses.
Video response. Review video example 10.5 from your book; from the 3 statements select which
one(s) are correct.
Statement 1: The video suggests that the media does apply peer pressure to adolescents to dress and act according popular trends.
Statement 2: The video suggests that text messaging is the most popular form of communication and even increases responses to parents.
Statement 3: The video suggests that there are both positive and negative influences of social media on adolescents.
Statement 1 & 2 are correct
Statement 2 & 3 are correct Statement 1 is correct
Statement 1,2&3 are correct
The term refers to the description of a person’s attributes, whereas the term
refers to how a person feels about those attributes.
self-esteem / self-efficacy
self-concept / self-system
self-efficacy / self-esteem
self-concept / self-esteem
Piaget’s description of the differences between preoperational thought (characteristic of
preschool aged children) and concrete operational thought (characteristic of elementary school aged children), includes which of the following?
Preoperational thought is reversible, but concrete operational thought is not.
Preoperational thought is fast, but concrete operational thought is slow.
Preoperational thought occurs in the frontal lobes, but concrete operational thought occurs in the corpus callosum.
Preoperational thought is centered, but concrete operational thought is decentered.
Which of the following is a temperamental characteristic that is associated with prosocial behavior?
Low social anxiety.
Agreeableness.
Intelligence.
Hedonism.
Video response. Review video 10.3 from your book; from the 3 statements select which one(s)
are correct.
Statement 1: The girl was exhibiting a normal element of adolescent development by desiring that her parents allow her to make more decisions on her own, and to trust her ability to make good decisions.
Statement 2: The parents described in the video were permissive and allowed the girl lenience in her activities and freedom to make her own decisions.
Statement 3: The girl in the video described her parents as good role models but admitted that she often disagreed with them.
Statement 1 is correct*
Statement 1 & 3 are correct Statement 2 is correct
Statement 2& 3 are correct
Friendship, according to Selman, requires balancing
Intimacy and autonomy.
Conflict and harmony.
Transforming and maintaining.
Bullying and giving in.
When Sammy had to learn the names of all the planets, as well as their relative sizes, he made up
sentences to help him create meaningful links between the concepts. For example, “Eartha ate the Mars candy bar” helped him remember that Earth is larger than Mars. Sammy was using a memory strategy called
Selective attention.
Rehearsal.
Organization.
Elaboration.
When Marla, age 14, decides that she is a good writer because she gets better grades than her friend Jenna on stories she writes for English, she is demonstrating the use of as part of identity formation.
Attribute substitution with peers
Normative crisis management with peers
Emotional autonomy from peers
Social comparison with peers
Which of the following is a well-documented gender difference in brain structure?
Male brains are more lateralized than female brains.
Female brains are more lateralized than male brains.
Language functions are governed by the right hemisphere in male brains and by the left hemisphere in female brains.
Female brains are more myelinated than male brains.
At what age would a young child typically show self-recognition, the ability to recognize themselves in a mirror?
By 10 months
By 13 months
By 18 months
By 3 years.
Question 17
2 / 2 pts By middle childhood, boys’ choices of companions tend to be based on shared interests, whereas girls’ choices of companions tend to be based more on
Looks.
Social class.
Personality.
Parents’ choices.
Which of the following elements is most closely associated with the concept of the imaginary audience?
Selfishness.
Uniqueness.
Risk taking.
extreme self-consciousness
Which of the following parenting styles is most closely associated with positive outcomes in psychosocial development and school achievement for adolescents?
Authoritative
Authoritarian
Permissive or indulgent
Neglecting or dismissive
Experimentation with deviant or risky behaviors (drug use, vandalism, sex, truancy, etc.) in adolescence is
Not typical of this age group and can be considered a clear sign of mental health problems.
Typical of this age group and can be considered statistically normative.
Equally likely for boys and for girls today.
Clearly on the decline in today’s culture.
Pubertal processes begin when certain changes occur in the endocrine system. Which of the following explains the beginning of this process?
Sexual development comes under the control of the thyroid.
The pituitary begins to stimulate other glands to release hormones into the bloodstream.
The adrenal gland influences the growth of secondary sex characteristics.
The hypothalamus controls the development of secondary sex characteristics.
Some research shows that cultural values and goals shape the kinds of discipline that parents use with their children. One example is that Puerto Rican mothers wanted their children to recognize their obligations and connectedness to others; their goals for their children were more
than the goals of European American mothers
individualistic
sociocentric
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