Was wondering if anyone wanted to help and see how much they remembered from this course. I already have this done but I want to compare my answers to yours and see which ones are different.

All of the following are normative steps in the development of anti-social youth, except:
• peer rejection
• serious mental illness
• temperamental vulnerabilities
• coercive family interactions
• deviant peer groups and evasion of adult supervision
Imagine that you are a researcher conducting observations in a child-centered classroom for four and five year olds in which the teachers use developmentally appropriate practice. You would expect to see which fo the following teacher behaviors?
• scaffolding
• emphasis on the process of learning
• respect for children as unique individuals
• all the above
• A and C only
The major developmental task faced by adolescents is:
• The establishment of meaningful love relationships
• Gaining acceptance into the peer groups
• The establishment of an integrated sense of self
• Breaking away from depends on parents
• Selecting a vocational pathway
Adolescence is a time of bio-psycho-social developments, including al of the following changes except:
• Puberty
• Neurological developments
• Cognitive changes
• Increases in emotions and emotional reactivity
• Decreases in need for parental support
James Marcia developed a system by which adolescents can be classified into one of the four identity statuses, according to whether they have experiences a “crisis” or made a “commitment” in life. The identity status which would best be describes as “no conflict, no crisis, no clue” would be:
• The identity moratorium status
• The identity diffusion status
• The identity achievement status
• The identity foreclosure status
Donna’s mother and father are both medical doctors, as are her two older brothers, Donna is in college, enrolled in a pre-med curriculum. When asked about her career goals, donna states, “ill be a doctor of course. Everyone in my family is a doctor. I’ve never thought of being anything else.” Donna Identity status is best described as:
• Identity Achievement status
• Identity moratorium status
• Identity foreclosure status
• Identity diffusion status
Which of the following factors makes the formation of identity a smoother process?
• Authoritarian parenting.
• Belonging to a group that is devalued by society.
• Exposure to a variety of role models and cultures
• Formal operations
When dilbert was a teenager, and had reached the stage of formal operational thought, he was more likely to benefit from science instruction in school than he was when he was a child, because;
• He became capable of centration and static thinking – to focus on one factor at a time, while holding others constant.
• He became able to formulate many possible explanations, systematically testing them through an experimental method.
• He became to test different hypotheses o na trial-and-error basis
• He became capable of transductive reasoning like most modern scientists.
Althought adolescents have an enhanced ability to reflect on their own as well as others thoughts and emotions, nevertheless, young adolescents may have some difficulty differentiating their own thoughts and feeling from those of other people. This can lead to two types of adolescent egocentrism.
• Reliance on intuitive and coincidental reasoning, rather than scientific reasoning.
• The imaginary audience and the personal fable.
• Schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders.
• Failure to master formal operations, and regression to concrete operations.
Which one of these reflects the current model of adolescent parent relationships?
• Adolescence is a time of stress and storm, during which kids rebel and become emotionally independent from their parents
• Adolescence is a time of stress, storm, and rebellion, but kids remain emotionally close to their parents
• Adolescence and parents may disagree, but kids listen to and remain close to their parents
• Adolescence is a time of autonomy development, so parents should step back emotionally and in terms of setting limits.
When bobby became a young adolescent capable of formal operational thinking, he became able to think more independently, imagine alternative to current realties, and raise questions about almost any possibility. This led bobby to:
• Become an idealist, envisioning a more perfect world, and inventing a logical solution to problems for the imperfect world he saw around him.
• Greater perceptual salience, where a deeper understanding was reached according to how things actually look.
• Combine individual facts which were actually unrelated, thus creating even greater confusion in adulthood
• A more careful focusing of awareness and greater ability to classify objects and relations in accord with a single dimension.
Randy is a gloomy 17 year old adolescent hanging around the house, because his steady girlfriend, Jean, is going on a date with another guy. His dad tried to comfort him and says, “I know just how you feel son. When I was your age…” randy cuts him off shouting, “you don’t know how I feel nobody knows how I feel!” randys dramatic outburst is typical of
• An adolescents personal fable
• The idea of an imaginary audience
• Decontextualized thinking
• Raging hormones in adolescence
Which of the following statements best describes the role of parents and peers during adolescence?
• Peers become the most important source of influence on adolescent identity.
• When parents are authoritarian, they remain the most influential and peers are less important.
• Parents and peers have equal influence – it is up to the adolescent to decide who to listen to.
• Parents continue to be influential in values, mortals, and beliefs and peers assume greater influence on interested activities’, and lifestyle.
Bart is a young boy who really wants the cool new skateboard he just saw at the store, but he doesn’t have enough money to buy it, for a while he thinks about stealing it. Bart decides that stealing isnt really wrong but could get punished if he gets caught. Barts moral reasoning appears to be at kohlbergs ___ level
• Post conventional
• unconventional
• preconventional
• conventional
Which of the following statements best reflects Kohlberg’s conventional level of mortality?
• “be nice, because that is what good people do”
• “look out for number one – that’s me”
• “do your own thing”
• “Rules are made to be broken”
Which approach to dealing with the children’s wrongdoing best promotes moral development?
• Withholding affection when a child misbehaves
• Explaining the effect of the wrongdoing on others
• The assertion of power
• Taking away privileges