Multiple choice quiz

Take the quiz to test your understanding of the key concepts covered in the chapter. Try testing yourself before you read the chapter to see where your strengths and weaknesses are, then test yourself again once you’ve read the chapter to see how well you’ve understood.

1. Which of the following is not one of the identity statuses studied by Marcia?

  1. foreclosure
  2. moratorium
  3. translocation
  4. diffusion

Answer:

c. translocation

2. According to Gilligan, which are the issues that are fundamental to adolescence?

  1. issues of interpretation
  2. issues of sexuality
  3. issues of authority
  4. issues of rock and roll

Answer:

a. issues of interpretation

3. What type of identity might be specific to Western cultures?

  1. choice-based identity
  2. prescribed identity
  3. gender identity
  4. ethnic identity

Answer:

a. choice-based identity

4. What are the origins of Erik Erikson’s last name:

  1. it was his father’s last name
  2. it was his mother’s last name
  3. it was his step-father’s last name
  4. it was the name he gave himself

Answer:

d. it was the name he gave himself

5. In Erikson’s view, adolescence is:

  1. a moratorium
  2. not a true developmental stage
  3. the last stage of human development
  4. a challenge to parents

Answer:

a. a moratorium

6. The combination of the experience of a crisis coupled with no commitment yet made defines which identity status?

  1. identity achievement
  2. foreclosure
  3. moratorium
  4. identity diffusion

Answer:

d. identity diffusion

7. In Dunphy’s study of adolescent peer culture, single-gender cliques came together to form a crowd. Which stage was this, of the five-stage transformation of peer social organization?

  1. the first stage
  2. the second stage
  3. the third stage
  4. the fourth stage

Answer:

b. the second stage

8. The ghotul in India is:

  1. an arranged marriage
  2. a kind of spicy food
  3. a community-arranged adolescent dormitory
  4. a strict taboo against contact with the opposite gender

Answer:

c. a community-arranged adolescent dormitory

9. Psychologists and psychiatrists have often viewed adolescence as a time when the healthy trajectory of development involves detachment from the parents. Today, however, there is more awareness that: 

  1. it can be healthy for interdependence to continue
  2. detachment typically occurs earlier, in middle childhood
  3. the peer group is more important than parents
  4. all parents have the same goal for their adolescent child 

Answer:

a. it can be healthy for interdependence to continue

10. Epistemological relativism is the view that:

  1. people construct their opinions, and all opinions are valid
  2. rational argument ought to change someone’s opinions
  3. knowledge is a copy of reality
  4. knowledge is either correct or it is incorrect

Answer:

a. people construct their opinions, and all opinions are valid

11. Ethical relativism is the view that:

  1. it is dangerous to base moral judgments on abstract principles
  2. social conventions serve important functions in society
  3. social conventions coordinate interactions about members of a social group
  4. care is a more adequate moral concern than justice

Answer:

a. it is dangerous to base moral judgments on abstract principles