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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?
(a) In depth profiles of children killed.
(b) In depth profiles of police killed.
(c) In depth profiles of everyone killed.
(d) In depth profiles of adults killed.

2. Why does a lowered resilience and coping ability compound negative social influences?
(a) Because these factors combine to increase violence.
(b) Because these factors combine to increase anger.
(c) Because these factors combine to lower emotional response.
(d) Because these factors combine to lower self worth.

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

4. In what year did four shootings occur in areas that were not typically hubs of youth violence?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1987.

5. What has developed in medium cities that has resulted in even more youth violence?
(a) The same gangs that exist in large cities.
(b) Racism.
(c) Poverty.
(d) The same 'war zones' that exist in large cities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the accumulation approach to developmental threat show us about success?

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

3. Why do abused children have a tendency to view the world differently?

4. What are some traits that put a child at risk for becoming aggressive?

5. This form of attachment indicates a high stress level and inconsolability.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the temperamental traits that put a child at risk for trouble and aggression, and what does research on responsive mothers show in light of these traits?

2. Explain negative social maps, and how they develop.

3. Explain why suicides should be included in rates of youth violence.

4. Explain the term 'toxic shame', and what it means to Garbarino.

5. Explain Garbarino's stance on social conditions, and their relationship to youth violence.

6. What does the social biological perspective say about why children face different opportunities and risks for development?

7. Explain how disassociation can help lead to violence.

8. Explain the effect of the historical and cultural patterns of the South on the 'war zones' of larger urban cities.

9. Explain 'Conduct Disorder', and why it is a useful, but dangerous, label.

10. In addition to negative social maps, what are two other links between abuse and child develop issues?

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