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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When bad behavior starts at this point, it is particularly worrisome.
(a) Any onset.
(b) Adolescent onset.
(c) Adult onset.
(d) Child onset.

2. What is compartmentalization?
(a) The tendency to disassociate from emotions.
(b) The tendency to put feelings such as fear out of consciousness.
(c) The tendency to put feelings such as fear in the forefront.
(d) The tendency to avoid emotional attachment.

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

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

5. What is the name of the game children in 'war zone' neighborhoods play with blocks?
(a) Gangland.
(b) Death.
(c) War.
(d) Funeral.

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

7. What does Garbarino accuse people of not wanting to do, when it comes to violent youth?
(a) Listen to them.
(b) Punish them.
(c) Understand them.
(d) Incarcerate them.

8. What is avoidant attachment?
(a) The relationship between child and caregiver where the child fears the caregiver.
(b) The relationship between child and caregiver where the child loves the caregiver.
(c) The relationship between child and caregiver where the child is violent toward the caregiver.
(d) The relationship between child and caregiver where the child rejects the caregiver.

9. How many high school boys carry a potentially lethal weapon?
(a) Five percent.
(b) Thirty percent.
(c) Fifty percent.
(d) Eighty percent.

10. What else is an important factor in youth violence?
(a) How kids act around adults.
(b) How kids think and feel about the world.
(c) How kids think and feel about religion.
(d) How kids act around peers.

11. What is disassociation?
(a) A disconnection from reality.
(b) A disconnection from parental guidance.
(c) A disconnection from emotions to avoid pain.
(d) A disconnection from society.

12. What do young violent boys tend to show in terms of fear?
(a) A lack of understanding for fearful situations.
(b) A high level of fear.
(c) An abnormal level of fear.
(d) A level of fearlessness.

13. What does Garbarino see little difference in, in terms of psychological significance?
(a) Robbery and armed robbery.
(b) Murder and violent assault.
(c) Domestic abuse and homicide.
(d) Suicide and murder.

14. How has social policy contributed to youth violence?
(a) Social policy has caused clustered public housing.
(b) Social policy has increased public housing.
(c) Social policy has caused race battles.
(d) Social policy has caused more poverty.

15. What is one reason homicide rates seem to have declined?
(a) There are fewer guns on the streets than ten years ago.
(b) Fewer homicides are actually reported.
(c) There are fewer homicides than ten years ago.
(d) Medical technology saves some that would have died of their wounds ten years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?

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

3. What trait do some mothers have or develop that can cause behavioral issues in their children, in terms of emotional attachment?

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

5. What has increased along with youth violence in the United States?

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