View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Perpetrator relocation is when the perpetrator is ____________________.
(a) Relocated to a less toxic environment.
(b) Relocated to work farms.
(c) Relocated to state prisons.
(d) Relocated to family members.

2. Boys respond to risk factors with antisocial behavior, whereas girls respond with ___________________.
(a) Promiscuity.
(b) Teen pregnancy.
(c) Violence issues.
(d) Internalized problems.

3. Garbarino claims some boys seek out images of evil and become addicted to them as a way of responding to what?
(a) The resentment they feel inside.
(b) The anger they feel inside.
(c) Social pressures to conform.
(d) The emptiness they feel inside.

4. What did the two boys in Gloverville have in their car that they drove around for several days?
(a) A stray dog.
(b) A kidnapped victim.
(c) A dead bird.
(d) A dead body.

5. What is the primary cause of neurological impairment in boys who are particularly vulnerable to learning violent patterns of behavior?
(a) Birth defects.
(b) Accidents.
(c) Falls.
(d) Child maltreatment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Garbarino claim that boys, because of masculine socialization, feel an intense pressure to be?

2. What is the term used to signify, among other things, the ability to read emotions of others?

3. Finding a way to make something positive out of life is _____________________.

4. This type of influence matters in how a boy behaves in society, regardless of home life.

5. What generates an "intolerability of existence", according to Gilligan?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do positive connections and relationships help vulnerable youths to avoid violence?

2. What is social support, as a foundation for resilience, and what are the two dimensions of social support?

3. Why is the measure of wealth to a child difficult?

4. Explain trauma, and why and how the learning of human fragility can be traumatic.

5. What are the five anchoring effects spirituality has on children?

6. Explain Garbarino's point about moral and legal legitimacy for non-violent adults, or how we define immoral killing.

7. What are the two types of trauma, and why is one worse than the other?

8. Explain Kohlberg's system of moral intellect.

9. Explain social toxicity, and be sure to include what it is, what it consists of, and why it is important to Garbarino.

10. What are home visiting programs, and why do they work?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 978 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample