Exam
Name
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
1) According to Plato, reasoning first appears during 1)
A) early childhood. B) middle childhood.
C) young adulthood. D) adolescence.
2) Plato thought children should study 2)
A) art. B) music. C) science. D) mathematics.
3) Plato thought that adolescents should study 3)
A) language. B) history. C) music. D) science.
4) Which ability did Aristotle argue is the most important aspect of adolescence? 4)
A) the ability to think critically B) the ability to choose
C) the ability to reason D) the ability to debate
5) What did Aristotle see as the hallmark of maturity? 5)
A) self-determination B) critical thinking
C) empathy D) self-efficacy
6) Rousseau believed that curiosity should be especially encouraged in the education of 6)
A) 17- to 19-year-old children. B) 12- to 15-year-old children.
C) 6- to 8-year-old children. D) 8- to 11-year-old children.
7) Ms. Bowen encourages her students, ages 12-15, to engage their curiosity in their 7)
learning. This teacher's ideas most closely resemble those of
A) Hall. B) Rousseau.
C) Aristotle. D) Sigmund Freud.
8) G. Stanley Hall believed that development is controlled primarily by _____ factors. 8)
A) psychological B) biological
C) social D) cultural
9) The "storm and stress" view of adolescence was postulated by 9)
A) G. Stanley Hall. B) Margaret Mead.
C) Alfred Adler. D) Jean Rousseau.
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,10) The "storm and stress" view of adolescence sees adolescence as a time of 10)
A) conflict. B) turbulence.
C) mood swings. D) All of these choices are correct.
11) Mary tells her husband that she is not looking forward to the time their son becomes an 11)
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 Mary's view of
adolescence?
A) Carl Jung B) Anna Freud
C) G. Stanley Hall D) Carol Gilligan
12) Anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded that the basic nature of adolescence is 12)
A) cognitive. B) sociocultural.
C) biological. D) psychological.
13) Mead believed that cultures in which adolescents' experiences are quite different 13)
from adults' experiences produce adolescents who
A) experience less stress. B) experience more stress.
C) develop empathy at early ages. D) develop empathy later in life.
14) Every state had developed special laws for youth between the ages of 16 and 18-20 14)
by which year?
A) 1930 B) 1920 C) 1940 D) 1950
15) Which of the following historical events changed both the description and the study 15)
of adolescents?
A) the women's movement of the 1970s
B) the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s
C) the antiwar protests of the 1960s
D) the Great Depression of the 1930s
16) Today's adolescents are more than their counterparts of previous generations. 16)
A) tolerant B) open-minded
C) diverse D) All of these choices are correct
17) Marty, age 16, spends most of his leisure time text messaging his friends and D) t
watching YouTube. According to Mark Bauerlein, Marty's behavior is y
A) a sign of rebellion against his parents' rules. p
B) atypical of someone of his age. i
c
C) classic for someone with impaired social skills.
a
2
, l of someone of his age. 17)
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Name
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
1) According to Plato, reasoning first appears during 1)
A) early childhood. B) middle childhood.
C) young adulthood. D) adolescence.
2) Plato thought children should study 2)
A) art. B) music. C) science. D) mathematics.
3) Plato thought that adolescents should study 3)
A) language. B) history. C) music. D) science.
4) Which ability did Aristotle argue is the most important aspect of adolescence? 4)
A) the ability to think critically B) the ability to choose
C) the ability to reason D) the ability to debate
5) What did Aristotle see as the hallmark of maturity? 5)
A) self-determination B) critical thinking
C) empathy D) self-efficacy
6) Rousseau believed that curiosity should be especially encouraged in the education of 6)
A) 17- to 19-year-old children. B) 12- to 15-year-old children.
C) 6- to 8-year-old children. D) 8- to 11-year-old children.
7) Ms. Bowen encourages her students, ages 12-15, to engage their curiosity in their 7)
learning. This teacher's ideas most closely resemble those of
A) Hall. B) Rousseau.
C) Aristotle. D) Sigmund Freud.
8) G. Stanley Hall believed that development is controlled primarily by _____ factors. 8)
A) psychological B) biological
C) social D) cultural
9) The "storm and stress" view of adolescence was postulated by 9)
A) G. Stanley Hall. B) Margaret Mead.
C) Alfred Adler. D) Jean Rousseau.
1
,10) The "storm and stress" view of adolescence sees adolescence as a time of 10)
A) conflict. B) turbulence.
C) mood swings. D) All of these choices are correct.
11) Mary tells her husband that she is not looking forward to the time their son becomes an 11)
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 Mary's view of
adolescence?
A) Carl Jung B) Anna Freud
C) G. Stanley Hall D) Carol Gilligan
12) Anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded that the basic nature of adolescence is 12)
A) cognitive. B) sociocultural.
C) biological. D) psychological.
13) Mead believed that cultures in which adolescents' experiences are quite different 13)
from adults' experiences produce adolescents who
A) experience less stress. B) experience more stress.
C) develop empathy at early ages. D) develop empathy later in life.
14) Every state had developed special laws for youth between the ages of 16 and 18-20 14)
by which year?
A) 1930 B) 1920 C) 1940 D) 1950
15) Which of the following historical events changed both the description and the study 15)
of adolescents?
A) the women's movement of the 1970s
B) the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s
C) the antiwar protests of the 1960s
D) the Great Depression of the 1930s
16) Today's adolescents are more than their counterparts of previous generations. 16)
A) tolerant B) open-minded
C) diverse D) All of these choices are correct
17) Marty, age 16, spends most of his leisure time text messaging his friends and D) t
watching YouTube. According to Mark Bauerlein, Marty's behavior is y
A) a sign of rebellion against his parents' rules. p
B) atypical of someone of his age. i
c
C) classic for someone with impaired social skills.
a
2
, l of someone of his age. 17)
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