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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the study by Tolan and Guerra on effective treatments, what two aspects were emphasized?
(a) Strong punishment and redevelopment of faith.
(b) Cognitive restructuring and behavioral rehearsal.
(c) Cognitive restructuring and redevelopment of faith.
(d) Behavioral rehearsal and practiced self worth.

2. What has been found to lower as developmental threats accumulate?
(a) IQ.
(b) Blood pressure.
(c) Body temperature.
(d) Temper.

3. Why does this development hit smaller cities even harder?
(a) There are fewer schools to send children to, so teachers are overworked.
(b) There are fewer schools to send children to, so everyone has a lower education.
(c) There are fewer schools to send children to, so all are exposed.
(d) There are more schools to send children to, so only the poorest are exposed

4. Garbarino says that at risk populations don't cause the epidemic, they _____________________.
(a) Don't care, so they don't fight the infection.
(b) Have too many issues to combat one more.
(c) Are more ripe for infection.
(d) Have too few adults to combat the issues.

5. What does the accumulation approach to developmental threat show us about success?
(a) That teens can have no support and still succeed.
(b) That teens are better off with a balance of risk and support.
(c) That teens have to be risk free to succeed.
(d) That teens do not have to be risk free to succeed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has developed in medium cities that has resulted in even more youth violence?

2. How many kids with negative and aggressive social maps become violent?

3. Why does the author blame improved care of premature babies for part of the youth violence issue?

4. What is a risk for boys who grow up without fathers?

5. How do some boys become lost, even without purposeful abuse and neglect?

(see the answer key)

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