Practice Test 3 Flashcards
Of the following, which is accurate regarding personal hygiene in adolescence?
The majority of teens experience acne regardless of skin care habits.
What is a common misconception among teenagers that health educators should correct?
Conception will not occur without penetration and ejaculation inside the vagina.
Research shows that how many fatal auto crashes involve alcohol intoxication?
Nearly one-third
What is good advice for preventing sexual assault?
Park in open, well-lighted areas and check backseats in advance
How many deaths does smoking cigarettes cause annually in America compared to other causes?
More than alcohol, drugs, car accidents, HIV, and gunshots combined
What is a result of regular and substantial alcohol use?
It damages both the cardiovascular and central nervous systems
What is true about guidelines for making 911 calls?
Situations needing immediate help from police, fire, or ambulances merit 911 calls.
According to Bowen Family Systems Theory, when both partners in a couple project their expanding anxieties into their relations, this reflects which basic relationship pattern identified by Bowen?
The pattern of marital conflict
In the nuclear family emotional system, Dr. Murray Bowen describes his Family Systems Theory, which basic relationship pattern is represented if a parent shows excessive anxiety about a child, and the child responds by regressing to increased dependence and immature demands on the parent?
Impairment of a child (children)
What are the big five personality traits?
Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness
In Hobfoll’s Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory of stress processes, which choice accurately represents one of four corollaries to two main principles?
Initially losing resources causes future losses
What has been found by research into teacher influence on children’s peer relationships as a social context factor?
Teachers who believe in and relate positively with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) children can modulate peer dislike of them.
What has research discovered about the adolescent decision-making process?
Real-life practice is necessary for teens to transfer cognitive skills to decisions
Decision-making models commonly require adolescents to develop certain skills. Which of these skill do they need to exercise first?
Defining which decisions they will have to make
What is accurate regarding the nature of decision-making for teenagers?
Social contexts change, hence, teens must evaluate and adjust their decisions
How do teenagers make decisions? (What influences them)
Feedback influences the decisions that adolescents make
Among emotional intelligence (EQ) skills, which one is most informed by the others?
Being able to resolve conflicts positively and confidently
Being able to resolve conflicts positively and confidently
EQ affects physical and mental health, school, and work performance, and relationships.
Among domains of development throughout life stages, what does Piaget’s theory focus most on?
Intellectual Development
According to Piaget’s developmental theory, when do children first achieve mental operations?
During sensorimotor stage
Erikson’s theory of development focuses MOST on a person’s relationship with which other aspect?
Society
In his developmental theory, what did Erikson identify as the positive outcome of successfully resolving the nuclear conflict of basic trust versus mistrust?
Hope
According to Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, which ability must be achieved during the period of adolescence?
Identity
In interpersonal conversations, which main goals entail both the highest cognitive challenge and the highest quality of interaction? (3 goals)
Task Goals, Identity Goals, and Relationship Goals
What accurately represents findings about how stress interacts with interpersonal communications on health care and other important subjects?
Being able to explain a problem affords more control over it.
