The tendency for boys to prefer math and girls to prefer English may be caused, in part, by _____:
a. genetic aptitude
b. left brain, right brain dominance
c. pressure to conform to sex-typed behaviors
d. natural ability
Q. 2Whereas successful professional employment is highly dependent upon intellectual ability, vocational employment typically requires working with __________________.
a. technology
b. ones hands
c. concepts
d. details
Q. 3The ____________________________ refers to the early adolescents sense that everyone is looking at him/her and noticing everything he/she does.
a. cognitive restructuring
b. personal fable
c. complexity syndrome
d. imaginary audience
Q. 4Being able to think about one's own thinking, recognizing what is internally subjective and objective is called _____.
a. metacognition
b. post formal operations
c. symbolic representation
d. interspection
Q. 5According to Berk (2002), early adolescents are often _____:
a. argumentative
b. indecisive
c. both A and B
d. neither A nor B
Q. 6Savickas (2002) describes students as finishing the growth stage and entering the _____.
a. choice stage
b. concrete operations stage
c. formal operations stage
d. tentative substage exploration
Q. 7All of the following EXCEPT ________________________ are identified in the chapter as developmental contributors to a high level of drama during the middle school years.
a. family changes
b. real choices that have an impact years later
c. cognitive changes including abstract thought and idealism
d. puberty with its sexual awakenings
Q. 8One of the major differences between career education in the elementary and middle school levels is a shift away from focusing on the ___________________ and an insertion of the _______________________.
a. personal; social
b. self; others
c. here-and-now; future
d. general; specific
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