COUN 6215 Week 7 Quiz

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1. When elementary school children are free to choose whomever they wish to play with, the most consistent finding is that they will choose

2. What does Savin-Williams (2005) argue about the nature of sexual orientation?

3. Counselors working with school-age children and adolescents need to recognize that

4. It’s a typical day for Tessa, a counselor who works with teenagers. Marcus explains to her that he came to school high on drugs because he can get away with it. He believes his teachers are clueless when it comes to spotting kids on drugs. Which form of adolescent egocentrism might Elkind

5. One gender-related characteristic of peer evaluations is that

6. To understand parent-teen conflicts, it can be helpful for the counselor to understand the parents’ and teen’s views of parental control. For example, teens often consider some aspects of parental control legitimate but not others. Which of the following kinds of rules governing behavior are

teens most likely to feel that parents should not control?

7. Which of these is the best summary of developmental trends in the formation of identity?

8. Experimentation with deviant or risky behaviors (drug use, vandalism, sex, truancy, etc.) in adolescence is

9. Tiffany is 3 years old. She knows that she is a girl, and she expects to be a girl tomorrow, but she does not understand that her gender is permanent. She believes that

cutting her hair short could change her gender. Tiffany has but not .

10. Which of the following parenting styles is most closely associated with positive outcomes in psychosocial development and school achievement for

adolescents?

11. According to Erikson, what are the processes involved in the development of identity?

12. When Marla, age 14, decides that she is a good writer because she gets better

13. What kind of peer intervention is least likely to be helpful to troubled teens?

14. High levels of parental monitoring and control are associated with which of the following outcomes regardless of ethnicity or social class?

15. In adolescence and early adulthood, males and females begin to spend more time in mixed-gender groups. Studies of who has more influence on the outcome of problem solving

16. Which of the following traits best characterizes popular children across a wide variety of cultures?

17. By middle childhood, boys’ choices of companions tend to be based on shared interests, whereas girls’ choices of companions tend to be based more on

18. A coping style which has been linked to higher levels of depression among adolescent girls and women is

19. Research indicates that children’s feelings of autonomy from peers are likely to be at their lowest point for which of the following age groups?

20. Dennis is a 17-year-old who comes to a counselor because he feels sexually attracted to males, which is at odds with his religious beliefs. Although he has felt this way for a long time, he is still struggling to understand why. Based upon the information presented in this

21. When counseling adolescents who are unsure of their sexual identity, helpers should keep in mind that

22. Which of the following is a well-documented gender difference in brain structure?

23. Brendt has finished 6th grade in his elementary school, and is beginning 7th grade at a junior high school. According to research on school transitions, what is most likely to be

true for Brendt?

24. As a toddler, Joey loved to “dance” with his mother and his sisters, twirling around the house to music. By age 5, Joey refused to dance anymore, saying that dancing was for girls. His mother felt that he really wanted to dance but that he just wouldn’t. How would

25. What is the “two-pronged approach” to helping adolescents with their behavioral, social, or academic problems?