In the _____ status, individuals make commitments without considering alternatives.
A) moratorium
B) foreclosure
C) identity achievement
D) identity diffusion
Question 2Jeremy's parents die in an accident in 1999 when he was 12. During his stay at his first foster home, Jeremy is caught shoplifting twice in the next six months and let go with a warning. Two years later he was placed in a youth detention center for assault and robbery on a grocery store. In the context of the ecological perspective, Jeremy's current situation was most likely due to the influence of his _____.
A) mesosystem
B) exosystem
C) chronosystem
D) macrosystem
Question 3Which of the following statuses is characteristic of younger adolescents and of older adolescents who drift through life or become alienated and rebellious?
A) Moratorium
B) Generativity
C) Identity diffusion
D) Ego integrity
Question 4The _____ approach broadens the strategies for intervention in problems such as prevention of teenage pregnancy, child abuse, and juvenile offending, including substance use disorders.
A) empirical
B) cognitive
C) ecological
D) equilibration
Question 5Which of the following is characteristic of adolescents in the stage of identity diffusion?
A) They tend to be alienated and rebellious.
B) They tend to exhibit suicidal tendencies.
C) The have established personal goals.
D) They set high standards for themselves.
Question 6In the context of human development, which of the following is true of the chronosystem?
A) It involves interactions in the school and the larger community.
B) It involves interactions based on the cultural settings of the individual.
C) It involves interactions with environmental changes that occur over the life course.
D) It involves interactions based on care giving with parents and others.
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