Which statement concerning vocational development in adolescence is true?
a. The fit between one's self-concept, personality, and occupation is unimportant.
b. Chance events seldom impact career decisions.
c. Minority status may lead one to lower or compromise one's career plans.
d. In women, holding traditional gender-role attitudes tends to lead to higher vocational aspirations.
Question 2Which statement represents an understanding of the most cognitively challenging aspect of death?
a. You cannot come back from the dead..
b. Once dead, always dead..
c. Everyone eventually dies..
d. You can die because of something inside of you that you cannot see..
Question 3The main development trend concerning vocational identity in late adolescence is that
a. for the first time in life, individuals actively explore vocational possibilities.
b. one's sex comes first into consideration when thinking about career options.
c. choices become more realistic.
d. the match between personality and occupation is seen more and more as irrelevant.
Question 4Who is best demonstrating an understanding of the universality of death?
a. James, who says, My grandpa died and never came back..
b. West, who says, You can die from cancer that is inside of you..
c. Artie, who says, Everything that lives dies..
d. Gorden, who says, Machines cannot die..
Question 5A positive sense of ethnic identity
a. is seldom found in African-American adolescents.
b. can protect an adolescent from damaging effects of racial prejudice.
c. tends to be completed by elementary school (especially in children growing up in homogenous environments with few interactions with other ethnic groups).
d. has little to do with parental behavior.
Question 6Amber was not that upset at her grandfather's funeral because, as she puts it, It's okay. We can see him when he gets better tomorrow.. Amber's statement indicates that she lacks an understanding of both the _____ aspects of death.
a. finality and irreversibility
b. irreversibility and universality
c. universality and biological causality
d. biological and psychological causality
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