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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has been shown to increase obedience during infancy?
(a) A responsive mother.
(b) A strict mother.
(c) A fearful mother.
(d) A non responsive mother.

2. What is one of the central controversies in child development, in terms of bad behavior?
(a) Whether bad behavior is socially acceptable.
(b) Whether bad behavior is taught.
(c) Whether bad behavior is programmed genetically.
(d) Whether bad behavior is a reaction to abuse.

3. Why do 'war zone' areas have higher rates of youth violence?
(a) The people are impoverished.
(b) The people are uneducated.
(c) The people have broken families.
(d) The people have higher buildups of risk factors.

4. How many teenagers report they could obtain a gun within an hour?
(a) One third.
(b) One fourth.
(c) Two thirds.
(d) Three fourths.

5. Children who lack attachment abilities have difficultly learning ____________________.
(a) Empathy, social norms, and positive behaviors.
(b) Caring, kindness, and morality.
(c) Sympathy, compassion, and honesty.
(d) Empathy, sympathy and caring.

6. What clothing item differentiates the levels of progress within the center?
(a) Color of ties.
(b) Color of shoelaces.
(c) Color of pants.
(d) Color of shirts.

7. What is most important in the effect of parents on children?
(a) How parental behavior organizes the child's life.
(b) How parental behavior shames the child.
(c) How the parent's subtle actions hurt the child.
(d) How the parent's subtle actions shape the child.

8. What two patterns of fathers are common in the history of violent boys?
(a) An abuse father and a loving father.
(b) An abusive father and a strict father.
(c) An absent father and an abusive father.
(d) An absent father and a loving father.

9. What often begins the spiral of depression, anger, and violence in teenage boys?
(a) Neurological problems.
(b) Anger at school.
(c) Frustration due to poverty.
(d) Shame at abandonment.

10. What is Garbarino trying to point out throughout these chapters, in terms of the cause of aggressive behaviors?
(a) Only biological triggers are important.
(b) Only peer structure is important.
(c) Only the family unit is important.
(d) Everything must be taken in context.

11. What are some traits that put a child at risk for becoming aggressive?
(a) High activity level and a lack of boredom.
(b) High activity level and a lack of fear.
(c) High activity level and increased fear.
(d) High activity level and a genius intelligence.

12. What phrase does Garbarino use to explain the way the nation reacts to situations, based on color and socioeconomic status?
(a) Class and race bias.
(b) Class and color bias.
(c) Economic and class bias.
(d) Race and color bias.

13. What can help turn the tide for violent boys, according to research by Kellam?
(a) Effective classroom management.
(b) Home management.
(c) Psychotherapy.
(d) Psychiatry.

14. Why does Garbarino believe the nation took notice of cases such as those of Michael Carneal, Mitchell Johnson, and Andrew Golden?
(a) They happened in suburbs and small towns, and involved minority boys.
(b) They happened in big towns, and involved minority boys.
(c) They happened in big towns, and involved white boys.
(d) They happened in suburbs and small towns, and involved white boys.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the game children in 'war zone' neighborhoods play with blocks?

2. What does Garbarino claim can lead us to humane treatment and rehabilitation?

3. Garbarino says that at risk populations don't cause the epidemic, they _____________________.

4. What did Josh mean when he asked his father to note the color and names of those in the newspaper?

5. What has been found to lower as developmental threats accumulate?

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