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Age norms represent

a. the socially and culturally defined expectations for how people should behave at a specific point in the life
span.
b. the socially and culturally defined expectations for how people should behave at a specific point in history.
c. personally defined expectations for how people should behave at a specific point in the life span.
d. personally defined expectations for how people should behave at a specific point in history.

Social functioning does NOT

a. support the profession's focus on person-in-environment transactions.
b. refer to the client's ability to accomplish the tasks necessary for daily living.
c. refer to the client's ability to fulfill major social roles.
d. refer to the client's ability to fulfill the roles as defined by the social worker.

Resilience does NOT

a. have an association with protective factors.
b. only happen in older adulthood.
c. refer to a person's ability to make positive adjustments under conditions of adversity.
d. help us understand how to buffer individuals from negative outcomes after exposure to known risk factors

Protective factors are

a. any well-known event, experience, or circumstance that is associated with a positive developmental outcome.
b. any well-known event, experience, or circumstance that is associated with a negative developmental outcome.
c. any well-known event, experience, or circumstance that is associated with a neutral developmental outcome.
d. not informative to understanding a developmental outcome.

Cohort effects on human behavior are closely associated with

a. normative, age-graded influences on behavior.
b. normative, history-graded influences on human behavior.
c. non-normative influences on human behavior.
d. non-shared events

Life transitions are NOT

a. age-graded.
b. embedded in life trajectories.
c. the result of non-normative factors.
d. uncommon.

Work and Marriage were considered key turning points to crime trajectories for

a. the General Theory of Crime.
b. persons with good attachment in childhood.
c. Patterson's study of the Great Depression.
d. youth with high propensities toward crime.

The assumption that the causes of crime and delinquency can change over time is consistent with which
theorists?

a. Gottfredson and Hirschi
b. Patterson and Hirschi
c. Sampson and Laub
d. Hirschi and Simmons

Gottfredson and Hirschi assume

a. poor self-control is the key factor associated with all forms of crime and delinquency.
b. propensities for delinquency are influenced in adulthood by changes in informal social control.
c. there are two types of offenders: early starters and late starters.
d. crime and delinquency is defined by criminogenic needs.

The funnel theory

a. hypothesizes that delinquency increases with age.
b. hypothesizes that people have declining capacity for change over time.
c. considers delinquency a key life course phenomena.
d. is one of the most widely accepted theories of trait aggression

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