Question 1

Psychological distancing between parents and children is normal during adolescence, and most parent–child conflict is mild.

Question 1 options:

	True
	False

Question 2

In one study, adolescents who formed friendships or romantic bonds on the Internet tended to be well-adjusted, popular with peers, and emotionally close to their parents.

Question 2 options:

	True
	False

Question 3

Late-maturing boys and early-maturing girls tend to be popular, self-confident, and sociable.

Question 3 options:

	True
	False

Question 4

Early dating is related to drug use, delinquency, and poor academic achievement.

Question 4 options:

	True
	False

Question 5

Intimacy is a defining feature of adolescent friendships.

Question 5 options:

	True
	False

Question 6

Compared to girls, boys tend to get less social support for the physical changes of puberty.

Question 6 options:

	True
	False

Question 7

Adolescents tend to be more possessive of their friends than they were in childhood.

Question 7 options:

	True
	False

Question 8

In the sequence of pubertal events, the growth spurt occurs at approximately the same age for both boys and girls.

Question 8 options:

	True
	False

Question 9

Research indicates that adolescence is a period of storm and stress for most teenagers.

Question 9 options:

	True
	False

Question 10

Because of gender-role expectations, girls’ friendships usually focus on communal concerns, boys’ on achievement and status.

Question 10 options:

	True
	False

Question 11

Both biological and social forces contribute to the experience of adolescence.

Question 11 options:

	True
	False

Question 12

Throughout the adolescent years, both cliques and crowds increase in importance.

Question 12 options:

	True
	False

Question 13

Most researchers agree that high sex hormone levels are primarily responsible for adolescent moodiness.

Question 13 options:

	True
	False

Question 14

Boys’ same-sex friendships tend to be of shorter duration than girls’.

Question 14 options:

	True
	False

Question 15

Both heredity and physical health contribute to pubertal growth.

Question 15 options:

	True
	False

Question 16

Because it emphasizes strict discipline and firm control over children, authoritarian child rearing is related to resistance to peer pressure.

Question 16 options:

	True
	False

Question 17

Menarche takes place immediately before the peak of the height spurt.

Question 17 options:

	True
	False

Question 18

Because it takes them so long to find partners, the first dating relationships of gay and lesbian youths tend to be long-lasting and to involve high levels of emotional commitment.

Question 18 options:

	True
	False

Question 19

Clique membership is more important to girls than boys.

Question 19 options:

	True
	False

Question 20

Girls adjust especially well to puberty when their fathers are aware of pubertal changes.

Question 20 options:

	True
	False