About This Chapter
This test practice collection focuses on supplying test content addressing areas such as service learning, sexual identity, sexual risk factors, sexually transmitted infections (stis), and sleep. Supplies systematically organized and delivers quiz items complete with correct answers, thorough explanations, and definitional references featuring key term definitions and comprehensive glossary references. Immediate answer verification with detailed explanatory notes enhances practice effectiveness and knowledge retention.
The learning goals are as follows:
✓ Summarize key aspects of how schools influence different stages of adolescent development.
✓ Describe the physical changes that occur during adolescence.
✓ Summarize the impact that lifestyle choices and health problems have on adolescents.
Question 1
Identify a true statement about service learning.
- It becomes ineffective when students are given some degree of choice in the service activities in which they participate.
- It aims at making adolescents more self-centered.
- It is effective when it provides students opportunities to reflect about their participation.
- It limits the amount of time students spend volunteering.
Correct Answer:
It is effective when it provides students opportunities to reflect about their participation.
Glossary:
Service Learning: A form of education that promotes social responsibility and service to the community.
Question 2
________ learning is a form of education that promotes social responsibility and service to the community.
- Service
- Social
- Collaborative
- Cooperative
Correct Answer:
Service
Glossary:
Social Policy: A national government’s course of action designed to promote the welfare of its citizens.
Question 3
In the context of adolescent sexuality, identify a true statement about developing a sexual identity.
- All gays and lesbians quietly struggle with same-sex attractions in childhood.
- An adolescent's sexual identity involves styles of behavior and an indication of sexual orientation.
- The majority of sexual minority adolescents have incompetent and unsuccessful paths of development through adolescence.
- Adolescents with opposite-sex attractions never experience any degree of same-sex attractions.
Correct Answer:
An adolescent's sexual identity involves styles of behavior and an indication of sexual orientation.
Glossary:
Gender Identity: The sense of being male or female, which most children acquire by the time they are 3 years old.
Question 4
Juanita, a Latino girl, is entering adolescence, and her mother wants to keep her from risky sexual behavior. According to research, her mother should
- engage in a lower level of parental monitoring.
- avoid emphasizing the need for academic excellence.
- foster a close and supportive relationship with Juanita.
- keep Juanita away from adolescent males until she reaches an appropriate age.
Correct Answer:
foster a close and supportive relationship with Juanita.
Glossary:
Attachment: A close emotional bond between two people.
Question 5
According to a study conducted by Glei (1999), in a single act of unprotected sex with an infected partner, a teenage girl is least likely to contract
- human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
- genital herpes.
- genital warts.
- human papillomavirus (HPV).
Correct Answer:
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Question 6
According to a study conducted by Glei (1999), in a single act of unprotected sex with an infected partner, a teenage girl has the greatest chance of acquiring
- genital warts.
- genital herpes.
- gonorrhea.
- chlamydia.
Correct Answer:
gonorrhea.
Glossary:
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs): Infections that are contracted primarily through sexual contact, including oral-genital and anal-genital contact.
Question 7
In a single act of unprotected sex with an infected partner, a teenage girl has a ________ percent risk of getting HIV.
- 1
- 10
- 25
- 50
Correct Answer:
1
Glossary:
Sensorimotor Stage: The first of Piaget’s stages, which lasts from birth to about 2 years of age; infants construct an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with motoric actions.
Question 8
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
- are rarely transmitted through oral sex.
- can be prevented by contraceptive pills or implants.
- rarely occur in U.S. adolescents.
- are contracted primarily through sexual contact.
Correct Answer:
are contracted primarily through sexual contact.
Glossary:
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs): Infections that are contracted primarily through sexual contact, including oral-genital and anal-genital contact.
Question 9
Several research studies were conducted by Mary Carskadon and her colleagues on the sleep patterns of U.S. adolescents. They concluded from the studies that
- when given the opportunity, adolescents will sleep an average of 7 hours a night.
- older adolescents tend to be sleepier during the day than younger adolescents.
- early school starting times are conducive to the sleep patterns of older adolescents but not to those of younger adolescents.
- adolescents being sleepy during the day was a result of academic work and social pressures.
Correct Answer:
older adolescents tend to be sleepier during the day than younger adolescents.
Question 10
Mary Carskadon and her colleagues' research on adolescent sleep patterns found that
- when given the opportunity, adolescents will sleep an average of 9 hours and 25 minutes a night.
- adolescents' biological clocks undergo a shift as they get older so that older adolescents start to feel sleepy an hour earlier than younger adolescents.
- younger adolescents tend to be sleepier during the day than older adolescents.
- increased sleepiness in adolescents during the day was primarily due to academic work or social pressures.
Correct Answer:
when given the opportunity, adolescents will sleep an average of 9 hours and 25 minutes a night.
Glossary:
Adolescent Egocentrism: The heightened self-consciousness of adolescents.