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The process of grouping individuals within social institutions on the basis of chronological age is called: |
age grading. |
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Age segregation in schools is the most efficient way to educate children in societies that are: |
sociometric. |
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All of the following are significant changes in peer groups that occur during adolescence, except: |
a decrease in the size of their peer groups |
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Research studying adolescent friendship networks has found all of the following, except: |
more than half of the adolescents in any given school are members of cliques. |
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According to Kinney's research, youngsters who were "nerds" in middle school: |
had opportunities to shift status in high school. |
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A group against which an individual compares himself or herself is called: |
a reference group. |
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Hostile attributional bias: |
plays a central role in the aggressive behavior of rejected adolescents. |
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Interventions designed to help unpopular adolescents improve their social skills have employed which of the following techniques? |
teaching social skills like self-expression and leadership techniques |
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The main reason that reactive aggression is associated with unpopularity and greater problems with peers is that reactive aggression is characterized by: |
a combination of aggression and poor emotion regulation or lack of social skills |
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According to Jacquelynne Eccles, a thorough understanding of school and its impact on adolescent development requires an examination of: |
what goes on in the classroom. |
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The practice of moving students from one grade to the next regardless of their academic performance is known as what? |
social promotion |
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According to the textbook, which of the following resulted from standards-based reform: |
educators could not agree on the body of knowledge and skills that comprised what high school graduates should know and be able to do |
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Which boy is most likely to commit an act of lethal violence? |
It is virtually impossible to predict which student will commit a lethal crime. |
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Generalizing from the text, who would benefit most from summer school? |
Ron, an adolescent living in a low SES neighborhood |
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What is the paradox of dropping out of school? |
Students who drop out are typically the ones who are most harmed by doing so
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