Practice Test 3

Question 1

Of the following, which is accurate regarding personal hygiene in adolescence?

Answer 1

The majority of teens experience acne regardless of skin care habits.

Question 2

What is a common misconception among teenagers that health educators should correct?

Answer 2

Conception will not occur without penetration and ejaculation inside the vagina.

Question 3

Research shows that how many fatal auto crashes involve alcohol intoxication?

Answer 3

Nearly one-third

Question 4

What is good advice for preventing sexual assault?

Answer 4

Park in open, well-lighted areas and check backseats in advance

Question 5

How many deaths does smoking cigarettes cause annually in America compared to other causes?

Answer 5

More than alcohol, drugs, car accidents, HIV, and gunshots combined

Question 6

What is a result of regular and substantial alcohol use?

Answer 6

It damages both the cardiovascular and central nervous systems

Question 7

What is true about guidelines for making 911 calls?

Answer 7

Situations needing immediate help from police, fire, or ambulances merit 911 calls.

Question 8

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?

Answer 8

The pattern of marital conflict

Question 9

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?

Answer 9

Impairment of a child (children)

Question 10

What are the big five personality traits?

Answer 10

Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness

Question 11

In Hobfoll’s Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory of stress processes, which choice accurately represents one of four corollaries to two main principles?

Answer 11

Initially losing resources causes future losses

Question 12

What has been found by research into teacher influence on children’s peer relationships as a social context factor?

Answer 12

Teachers who believe in and relate positively with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) children can modulate peer dislike of them.

Question 13

What has research discovered about the adolescent decision-making process?

Answer 13

Real-life practice is necessary for teens to transfer cognitive skills to decisions

Question 14

Decision-making models commonly require adolescents to develop certain skills. Which of these skill do they need to exercise first?

Answer 14

Defining which decisions they will have to make

Question 15

What is accurate regarding the nature of decision-making for teenagers?

Answer 15

Social contexts change, hence, teens must evaluate and adjust their decisions

Question 16

How do teenagers make decisions? (What influences them)

Answer 16

Feedback influences the decisions that adolescents make

Question 17

Among emotional intelligence (EQ) skills, which one is most informed by the others?

Answer 17

Being able to resolve conflicts positively and confidently

Question 18

Being able to resolve conflicts positively and confidently

Answer 18

EQ affects physical and mental health, school, and work performance, and relationships.

Question 19

Among domains of development throughout life stages, what does Piaget’s theory focus most on?

Answer 19

Intellectual Development

Question 20

According to Piaget’s developmental theory, when do children first achieve mental operations?

Answer 20

During sensorimotor stage

Question 21

Erikson’s theory of development focuses MOST on a person’s relationship with which other aspect?

Answer 21

Society

Question 22

In his developmental theory, what did Erikson identify as the positive outcome of successfully resolving the nuclear conflict of basic trust versus mistrust?

Answer 22

Hope

Question 23

According to Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, which ability must be achieved during the period of adolescence?

Answer 23

Identity

Question 24

In interpersonal conversations, which main goals entail both the highest cognitive challenge and the highest quality of interaction? (3 goals)

Answer 24

Task Goals, Identity Goals, and Relationship Goals

Question 25

What accurately represents findings about how stress interacts with interpersonal communications on health care and other important subjects?

Answer 25

Being able to explain a problem affords more control over it.