Many scholars now agree that the principal task in early adolescence is to achieve
a. intimacy and commitment
b. competency, mastery, or control
c. emotional separation from parents
d. all of these
e. none of these
Question 2The view that to be normal during the adolescent period is by itself abnormal was put forward by
a. Erik Erikson
b. Anna Freud
c. Daniel Offer
d. Carl Jung
e. Albert Bandura
Question 3According to Erikson's theory of the human life cycle, the principal virtue to be developed in adolescence is
a. hope
b. love
c. competency
d. fidelity
e. purpose or direction
Question 4According to Erikson, the principal developmental task of adolescence is the establishment of
a. a more or less stable sense of personal identity
b. a sense of confidence or basic trust
c. a sense of intimacy versus isolation
d. an orientation towards generativity
e. a more or less reliable sense of ego integrity
Question 5Which of the following is the best description of adolescence?
a. it is equivalent to the teenage years
b. it begins in biology and ends in culture
c. it is defined at its onset by leaving and returning home
d. it ends in puberty
e. it is the same for females as for males
Question 6Causes of adolescents' deaths found in the vignette near the beginning of Chapter 13 included
a. cancer, homicide, and heart disease
b. congenital malformations, diseases of the heart, and tobacco smoking
c. malignant neoplasms, suicide, and cancer
d. HIV infection, motor vehicle accidents, and suicide by hanging
e. homicide, suicide, and accident (p, 401)
Question 7Support groups for bereaved children are founded on the conviction that
a. such children are unlikely to be able to find a healthy way to go forward in their lives
b. stigmatizing bereaved children is unavoidable
c. complicated mourning processes have not been identified in such children
d. one must suspect the validity of a child's mourning processes
e. grief is a natural reaction to loss in children
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