Psychology

Question 1 Chapter 13.
Reference 1. Joe has just arrived at Marine Boot Camp after enlisting in the service. The older recruits frequently humiliate him and involve him in degrading behaviours. Joe is experiencing a. adolescent moratorium. b. hazing. c. a countercultural rite of passage. d. peak development.

Question 2
Reference 4. Keesha is 30 years old and feels like shes the only person in the U.S. to have not yet been married. Keesha a. is wrong because over 52  of Americans do not marry before age 30 b. is wrong because approximately 10 percent of white Americans and 20 percent of black Americans her age have never been married. c. is nearly correct because approximately 1 percent of white Americans and 2 percent of black Americans her age have never been married. d. is wrong because nearly half of both white Americans and black Americans her age have never been married.

Question 3
Reference 12. Joining a sports team, a gang, or the counterculture movement are evidence that adolescents a. are masochistic. b. epitomize why the caged bird sings. c. yearn for some form of initiation rite. d. are developing an ascribed identity.

Question 4
Reference 23. Mary Sue has been keeping a journal since she was a teenager, where she writes regularly about how her life experiences affect her and the interaction of her lifes personal events. In Levinsons terms, her journals represent Mary Sues a. life course. b. lifespan. c. life cycle. d. life structure.

Question 5
Reference 11. In a 2001 study by Marshall and others, they noted that a. children who have an extended social network do not perform any better in school than those who do not have an extended social network. b. Latinos and African Americans are more likely to involve friends and neighbours in their activities. c. middle-class European Americans are more likely to have extended family members living nearby or in the same house. d. children who have an extended social network tend to be happier than those who do not. ________________________________________

Question 6
Reference 71. Peter and Angela are watching a movie. In one scene, teenage boys are driving in a downtown area, wolf-whistling and hooting at the attractive young women they see. Peter likes the scene and chuckles. Angela tells Peter that the scene objectifies women and she doesnt like it. Peter and Angela are responding typically for their genders a. because males are all chauvinists and females are over-sensitive. b. because males use the bend-and-bond response and females use the bond-and-bend response. c. because a mans sexual drive tends to come from the inside and a womans comes from stimuli in the outside world. d. because males dont notice if it hurts their partners to be objectified.