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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 does the term 'bad seed' imply?
(a) That someone is taught bad behaviors.
(b) That someone is diseased.
(c) They someone is born bad.
(d) That someone is not rehabilitative.

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

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

4. Why does this development hit smaller cities even harder?
(a) There are more schools to send children to, so only the poorest are exposed
(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 fewer schools to send children to, so teachers are overworked.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What other type of violence has increased among young men?

2. What phrase does Garbarino use to explain the way the nation reacts to situations, based on color and socioeconomic status?

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

4. The term for the moment when a small change in the presence of a germ produces a big change in the rate of infection is _______________________.

5. How did an end to segregation allow for the growth of youth violence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why some abused children avoid these negative social maps?

2. Explain the accumulation approach to risk factors for youth violence, and how it helps lend hope for helping these young men.

3. Explain what the Chicago Tribune did in 1993 - 1994, and what Garbarino's son's reaction was to his father's concerns.

4. Explain what class and race bias are, and how they contribute to a lack of concern for youth violence in minority areas.

5. Describe the four types of attachment.

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

7. What are the three options in terms of the development of aggressive and violent boys?

8. Describe the concept of the tipping point.

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

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

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