About This Chapter
This assessment collection covers assessing your grasp of subjects like the cross-cultural comparisons, the cultural and ethnic identity and the dating and adjustment. Offers a variety of presents practice questions with accurate answers, comprehensive explanations, and terminology definitions enriched with concept glossaries and precise terminological definitions. Immediate answer verification with detailed explanatory notes enhances practice effectiveness and knowledge retention.
The learning outcomes are:
✓ Summarize cultural influences during adolescence.
✓ Describe self, identity, and religious/spiritual development in adolescence.
✓ Summarize the development of sexual identity that occurs during adolescence.
Question 1
According to research, which of the following is true of adolescents and how they spend their time?
- Adolescents in other industrialized countries have greater quantities of discretionary time than do adolescents in the United States.
- It is believed that spending large numbers of hours in relaxation and unchallenging activities fosters development in adolescents.
- U.S. adolescents spend about 60 percent as much time on schoolwork as East Asian adolescents do.
- Unstructured activities provide more promise for adolescent development than do structured voluntary activities.
Correct Answer:
U.S. adolescents spend about 60 percent as much time on schoolwork as East Asian adolescents do.
Glossary:
Cross-Cultural Studies: Comparison of one culture with one or more other cultures. These provide information about the degree to which development is similar, or universal, across cultures, and the degree to which it is culture-specific.
Question 2
The amount of daily discretionary time that American adolescents have is ________ what adolescents have in East Asia.
- significantly less than
- significantly more than
- equal to
- declining compared with
Correct Answer:
significantly more than
Question 3
Which of the following statements about the trend in cross-cultural gender differences in sexual expression is true?
- Gender differences in sexual expression are minor, especially in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
- Gender differences in sexual expression and educational opportunities appear to be narrowing over time.
- In India, there are far more restrictions on the sexual activities of men than on those of women.
- In Arab countries, both adolescent males and females encounter the same amount of restriction on sexual activities.
Correct Answer:
Gender differences in sexual expression and educational opportunities appear to be narrowing over time.
Glossary:
Gender: The characteristics of people as males or females.
Question 4
A ________ is a ceremony or ritual that marks an individual's transition from one status to another and mostly focuses on the transition to adult status.
- rite of passage
- litmus test
- march of time
- communion
Correct Answer:
rite of passage
Glossary:
Rite Of Passage: A ceremony or ritual that marks an individual’s transition from one status to another. Most rites of passage focus on the transition to adult status.
Question 5
Sita is a girl who lives in India; Suki is a girl who lives in Japan. They both have two older brothers. According to research, who is most likely to have better access to education?
- Sita
- Suki
- They both have a poor chance at receiving an education.
- They both have an equally good chance at receiving an education.
Correct Answer:
Suki
Glossary:
Stereotype Threat: The anxiety that one’s behavior might confirm a negative stereotype about one’s group.
Question 6
The event that comes closest to being a culture-wide rite of passage in the United States is
- a birthday party.
- getting a driver's license.
- a school graduation ceremony.
- joining a college fraternity.
Correct Answer:
a school graduation ceremony.
Glossary:
Rite Of Passage: A ceremony or ritual that marks an individual’s transition from one status to another. Most rites of passage focus on the transition to adult status.
Question 7
Shifu belongs to a tribe in which all the boys must swim across a particular river to mark their transition to adult status. A grand and elaborate ceremony is held in the tribe's village to signal the achievement of adult status. Which of the following terms best describes the ceremony?
- rite of passage
- litmus test
- march of time
- communion
Correct Answer:
rite of passage
Glossary:
Rite Of Passage: A ceremony or ritual that marks an individual’s transition from one status to another. Most rites of passage focus on the transition to adult status.
Question 8
Baku is a local guide living and working in Kenya. While explaining some of the local cultures and practices to a group of tourists, he tells that some tribes have customs that relate to rites of passage. A tourist asks Baku about the importance of rites of passage. Which of the following statements would most likely be Baku's response?
- Rites of passage mostly focus on severing ties with adolescents' native culture.
- Rites of passage mostly focus on the initiation of adolescents into a nuclear family.
- Rites of passage mostly focus on the reaffirmation of adolescents' connection with the immediate family.
- Rites of passage mostly focus on the transition of adolescents to adult status.
Correct Answer:
Rites of passage mostly focus on the transition of adolescents to adult status.
Question 9
Rites of passage
- are nonexistent in the United States.
- are on the increase in several African countries that are influenced by Western culture.
- provide a forceful and discontinuous entry into the adult world.
- to adulthood usually involve a reaffirmation of the individual's connection with the immediate family.
Correct Answer:
provide a forceful and discontinuous entry into the adult world.
Question 10
In which of the following locations in sub-Saharan Africa are rites of passage prevalent?
- locations where the influence of industrialized culture is high
- locations where Western culture is readily accepted
- locations where social structure is present but not adhered to
- locations where formal education is not readily available
Correct Answer:
locations where formal education is not readily available
Question 11
Tina is preparing a presentation on adolescent health in the 21st century. She decides to go through a few research studies and collate the findings in her presentation. Which of the following research findings will Tina most likely include in her presentation?
- More adolescents around the world are dying from acute infections than before.
- Many adolescent health-compromising behaviors, especially illicit drug use and unprotected sex, are decreasing in frequency.
- The rate of HIV infection in sub-Saharan countries has decreased marginally in recent years.
- Fewer adolescents around the world die from malnutrition now than in the past.
Correct Answer:
Fewer adolescents around the world die from malnutrition now than in the past.
Question 12
Misha is a first-generation immigrant in the United States. In the context of cultural and ethnic identity, which of the following statements is most likely to be true about her identity?
- She is unlikely to change her identity much and may or may not develop a new identity.
- She thinks of herself as an American because she was granted citizenship at birth.
- She is least likely to be secure with her identity.
- She is likely to change her identity tremendously.
Correct Answer:
She is unlikely to change her identity much and may or may not develop a new identity.
Glossary:
Ethnic Identity: An enduring, basic aspect of the self that includes a sense of membership in an ethnic group and the attitudes and feelings related to that membership.
Question 13
Ethnic ________ is an enduring aspect of the self that includes a sense of membership in an ethnic group, along with the attitudes and feelings related to that membership.
- gloss
- awareness
- identity
- pride
Correct Answer:
identity
Glossary:
Ethnic Identity: An enduring, basic aspect of the self that includes a sense of membership in an ethnic group and the attitudes and feelings related to that membership.
Question 14
Most adolescents from ethnic minority groups develop a(n) ________ identity.
- bicultural
- additive
- multiplicative
- monocultural
Correct Answer:
bicultural
Glossary:
Cross-Cultural Studies: Comparison of one culture with one or more other cultures. These provide information about the degree to which development is similar, or universal, across cultures, and the degree to which it is culture-specific.
Question 15
Irene, a 16-year-old girl, is a first-generation immigrant whose parents came to the United States from Ukraine when she was just a baby. Irene enjoys many of the same things that her American friends do but respects her culture's traditions and speaks to her parents in their native language. Irene seems to have formed a(n) ________ identity.
- additive
- bicultural
- multiplicative
- culturally confused
Correct Answer:
bicultural
Glossary:
Language: A form of communication, whether spoken, written, or signed, that is based on a system of symbols. Language consists of the words used by a community and the rules for varying and combining them.
Question 16
A study of tenth-graders revealed that
- the number of romantic experiences reported had no link with the levels of social acceptance experienced by adolescents.
- having more romantic experience was linked to a higher level of substance use and delinquency.
- co-rumination and romantic involvement predicted a decrease in depressive symptoms.
- having no experience of romantic relationships is a consistent predictor of depression and deviant behavior.
Correct Answer:
having more romantic experience was linked to a higher level of substance use and delinquency.