Test Bank for Adolescence, 18th Edition by John Santrock
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Course
Adolescence
Institution
Adolescence
Test Bank for Adolescence 18e 18th Edition by John Santrock. Full Chapters test bank are included - Chapter 1 to 13
1. Introduction
Appendix: Careers in Adolescent and Emerging Adult Development
2. Puberty, Health, and Biological Foundations
3. The Brain and Cognitive Development
4. The Self...
Chap 01 18e Santrock
1) According to Plato, reasoning first appears during
A) early childhood.
B) middle childhood.
C) adolescence.
D) young adulthood.
2) Plato thought children should study
A) science.
B) music.
C) art.
D) mathematics.
3) Plato thought that adolescents should study
A) science.
B) language.
C) music.
D) history.
4) Which ability did Aristotle argue is the most important aspect of adolescence?
A) the ability to reason
B) the ability to think critically
C) the ability to debate
D) the ability to choose
5) What did Aristotle see as the hallmark of maturity?
A) self-determination
B) empathy
C) self-efficacy
D) critical thinking
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,6) Rousseau believed that curiosity should be especially encouraged in the education of
A) 6- to 8-year-old children.
B) 8- to 11-year-old children.
C) 12- to 15-year-old children.
D) 17- to 19-year-old children.
7) Ms. Bowen encourages her students, ages 12-15, to engage their curiosity in their learning.
This teacher's ideas most closely resemble those of
A) Sigmund Freud.
B) Aristotle.
C) Hall.
D) Rousseau.
8) G. Stanley Hall believed that development is controlled primarily by_____ factors.
A) cultural
B) psychological
C) social
D) biological
9) The "storm and stress" view of adolescence was postulated by
A) Jean Rousseau.
B) Alfred Adler.
C) G. Stanley Hall.
D) Margaret Mead.
10) The "storm and stress" view of adolescence sees adolescence as a time of
A) turbulence.
B) conflict.
C) mood swings.
D) All of these choices are correct.
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,11) Maria tells her husband that she is not looking forward to the time their son becomes an
adolescent, because she has read that it is a time of great conflict and stress for the family.
Which of the following theorists would agree with Maria's view of adolescence?
A) Carl Jung
B) Carol Gilligan
C) Anna Freud
D) G. Stanley Hall
12) Anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded that the basic nature of adolescence is
A) biological.
B) psychological.
C) sociocultural.
D) cognitive.
13) Mead believed that cultures in which adolescents' experiences are quite different from adults'
experiences produce adolescents who
A) experience more stress.
B) experience less stress.
C) develop empathy at early ages.
D) develop empathy later in life.
14) According to which view is adolescence a sociohistorical creation?
A) Margaret Mead’s
B) the inventionist view
C) G. Stanley Hall’s
D) Aristotle’s
15) A decline in apprenticeship, the separation of work and home, and the rise of age-graded
schools are all_____ that gave rise to the inventionist view.
A) biological factors
B) sociocultural aspects
C) sociohistorical circumstances
D) compulsory legislation
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, 16) Every state had developed special laws for youth between the ages of 16 and 20 by which
year?
A) 1920
B) 1930
C) 1940
D) 1950
17) Which of the following historical events changed both the description and the study of
adolescents?
A) the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s
B) the feminist movement of the 1970s
C) the anti-war protests of the 1960s
D) the Great Depression of the 1930s
18) Surveys have shown that millennials are more_____ than their counterparts of previous
generations.
A) diverse
B) tolerant
C) open-minded
D) All of these choices are correct
19) Which of the following statements regarding Laurence Steinberg's position on the state of
adolescent well-being in today's generation is NOT true?
A) The academic achievement in math and science among U.S. teens falls well below the
academic achievement of teens in many other countries.
B) Almost one-third of U.S. teenage girls become pregnant by the age of 20.
C) Rates of first sexual intercourse prior to age 18 has risen dramatically over the past
several years.
D) College graduation rates among U.S. college students falls below the college
graduation rates among college students in other countries.
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