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All of the following are recommendations of the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development EXCEPT


A) professionals who work with adolescents should aim to increase their contact time with the adolescents and decrease the time that they spend with the parents.
B) community institutions should become more involved in providing after-school programs.
C) employers should extend the benefits now afforded to parents of young children to parents of adolescents.
D) All of these are recommendations.

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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Which of the following adolescents is MOST likely to have a positive relationship with a sibling?


A) Hannah,whose easy temperament is the opposite of her brother's difficult temperament.
B) Elsie,whose difficult temperament is the same as her sister's difficult temperament.
C) Colleen,who shares an easy temperament with her brother.
D) Hayden,whose parents treat her and her sister differently.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Eva,age 15,insists that she is going to spend her summer vacation with her best friend at the lake house owned by the friend's family.Eva does not want to go on the vacation that her family has planned and says that they can't make her.Her parents should understand that Eva is


A) asserting her autonomy.
B) challenging her parents' authority.
C) closer to her friends' parents than her own parents.
D) asserting her autonomy or challenging her parents' authority.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Before Justin's father remarried,Justin was responsible for mowing the grass,putting the dishes in the dishwasher,and doing his own laundry.Now that Kim has married into the family,Justin is not sure which of his responsibilities he should continue to do.Justin is experiencing


A) boundary strain.
B) role discontinuity.
C) boundary ambiguity.
D) cognitive dissonance.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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What is meant by the term co-parenting,and how does it differ from more traditional parenting?

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Co-parenting is parenting that is charac...

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Which of the following statements about the transition from high school to college is NOT true?


A) Female students show more psychological dependency on their parents than do male students.
B) Male students show more psychological dependency on their parents than do female students.
C) Freshmen show more psychological dependency on their parents than do upperclassmen.
D) Freshmen show poorer social adjustment than do upperclassmen.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Which of the following statements regarding parents as managers is NOT true?


A) Fathers are more likely than mothers to have a managerial role in parenting.
B) Mothers are more likely than fathers to have a managerial role in parenting.
C) Family management practices are positively related to students' grades.
D) Family management practices are negatively related to school problems.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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The epigenetic view emphasizes that development is the result of an ongoing,bidirectional interchange between ________ and the ________.


A) parents; adolescent
B) influence; behavior
C) heredity; environment
D) autonomy; secure attachment

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Intense parent-adolescent conflict is related to all of the following EXCEPT


A) more empathy.
B) depression.
C) membership in cults.
D) anxiety.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Jeremy's parents have divorced.If Jeremy's situation is typical of many divorced families,he can expect that


A) his mother will have less money than when she was married.
B) his mother will have more money than when she was married,due to child support and alimony payments.
C) his standard of living will increase slightly.
D) None of these will happen.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Which of the following statements about working parents and adolescents is TRUE?


A) Mothers with positive work experiences have adolescents who report fewer physical health problems.
B) Negative working conditions of parents are linked to less behavior problems in adolescents.
C) Mothers who work more than 60 hours per week had conflicted relationships with their adolescents.
D) Parents who have excellent working conditions tend to engage in less effective parenting.

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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The transition from high school to college is especially difficult for adolescents who


A) continue to live at home and commute to college.
B) move more than 100 miles away from home to go to college.
C) have parents that are divorced or separated.
D) are only children.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Family organization and routine has been shown to be positively related to all of the following factors EXCEPT


A) school-related problems.
B) school attendance.
C) school achievement.
D) paying attention in class.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Lori and her parents frequently have conflict over the amount of time she spends talking on the phone to her friends.Carl's parents nag him about how much time he spends text messaging his buddies.Both Lori and Carl are experiencing conflicts with their parents that are


A) fairly typical of the issues that lead adolescents and their parents to be in conflict.
B) atypical; most parents focus on larger issues like drinking or truancy.
C) atypical in that the conflicts are common; most parents rarely have conflict with their teens.
D) None of these choices are correct.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Indulgent parenting has been associated with ________ in adolescents.


A) appreciation
B) altruism
C) social competence
D) lack of self-control

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Helena is the first-born child in her family.According to research on birth order,Helena is likely to be


A) liberal.
B) achieving.
C) overly dependent.
D) diplomatic.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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The most important factor to consider when examining the effect that parental employment has on adolescent development is


A) one or both parents in the workforce.
B) parental satisfaction with work.
C) amount of income from employment.
D) All of the above are important.

E) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

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Judy Dunn has described three important characteristics of sibling relationships: familiarity and intimacy of the relationship,variation in sibling relationships,and


A) parent favoritism between and among siblings.
B) emotional quality of the relationship.
C) trust level of the relationship.
D) conflict level of the relationship.

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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Compare and contrast adolescents and emerging adults from divorced and nondivorced families.

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Most researchers agree that children,ado...

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A teen from an intact family with high level of marital conflict are at an increased risk for


A) risky sexual behaviors.
B) peer problems.
C) academic difficulties
D) low self-esteem.

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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