Question 1

According to a study, males are more exposed to risk, but risk exposure is more predictive of alcohol problems for females.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 2

Sexual minority youth are at ______ for alcohol and drug use.

Accepted Answer

A)   low risk
B)   high risk
C)   standard risk
D)   substandard risk

Question 3

Adolescents with parents who granted them little autonomy were found to engage in more substance use when they were also more highly engaged in disadvantaged communities.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Rates of alcohol and other substance use have generally been lower for African American youth than for White and Hispanic youth.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 5

An example of an alcohol-specific effect is ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   a parent's alcoholism
B)   the normalization of alcohol use in media
C)   smoking only when drinking
D)   peer drinking behavior

Question 6

Research suggests that one positive effect of parents receiving treatment has been ______

Accepted Answer

A)   lower rates of DUI arrests
B)   increased child-parent codependency
C)   decreased child exposure to parental conflict
D)   improved family financial standing

Question 7

The ______ refers to the finding that although immigrants often live in challenging conditions, they experience lower levels of substance abuse.

Accepted Answer

A)   immigrant paradox
B)   contradictory migration effect
C)   new arrival ethic
D)   immigrant exception

Question 8

What impact does behavioral disinhibition have on adolescent alcohol use?

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

While parental warmth has been found to be a protective factor, ______ has been linked to regular alcohol use in adolescence.

Accepted Answer

A)   maintaining high family expectations
B)   having a single parent
C)   setting low family expectations
D)   overprotection D

Question 10

Children from antisocial alcoholic families would benefit most from interventions that begin in ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   adolescence
B)   preadolescence
C)   infancy
D)   prenatally

Question 11

Children whose parents abuse substances are less likely to use drugs because they see the damage it does.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Monitoring the Future surveys repeatedly find lower rates of substance use among ______ youth than among European American adolescents.

Accepted Answer

A)   Latinx
B)   African American
C)   East Asian
D)   Australian

Question 13

Alcoholic parents are at a higher risk for having children with behavioral problems, and children's behavioral problems may increase parental stress and lead to more drinking. This is an example of ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   circular reasoning
B)   cause and effect
C)   the outcomes of poor parenting
D)   a bidirectional process

Question 14

Which child characteristics have scholars found to be related to childhood substance use?

Accepted Answer

A)   access to alcohol at home and living with a single parent
B)   behavioral disinhibition, especially in females
C)   thrill seeking and rejection of authority
D)   more tolerance of deviance and deviant self-image

Question 15

Adoptive parents of children whose biological parents had alcohol, antisocial, depressive, or other psychiatric disorders experienced double the risk of developing their own psychiatric or alcohol-related problems as adoptive parents of children without such a predisposition.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

______ of associations between parental substance use and adolescent behavior identify mechanisms and processes in the transmission of adolescent alcoholism.

Accepted Answer

A)   Intermediaries
B)   Moderators
C)   Mediators
D)   Exacerbators

Question 17

The term substance misuse refers to ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   excessive consumption of a substance
B)   both experimental and regular use of a substance
C)   serious and persistent problems with substances
D)   being medically unable to stop using a substance

Question 18

Adolescents experiencing current substance abuse have been shown to have more problem behaviors, such as binge drinking, than adolescents with histories of prior abuse.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

The term substance use refers to ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   excessive consumption of a substance
B)   both experimental and regular use of a substance
C)   serious and persistent problems with substances
D)   being medically unable to stop using a substance

Question 20

Which statement about how the age of onset of drinking impacts later use and abuse is most accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)   If teens began drinking at 12 years or younger, they usually stopped by the time they finished high school.
B)   If teens began drinking at 12 years or younger, they had a higher risk of substance abuse as adults than if they held off until they were 16 years old.
C)   If teens begin drinking at 12 years or younger, their trajectory of later drinking declines by the time they are 25.
D)   Children typically drink in high school. Researchers disagree on when a youth's drinking impacts their later use.

Exam 19: Families Coping With Alcohol and Substance Abuse

According to a study, males are more exposed to risk, but risk exposure is more predictive of alcohol problems for females.

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Sexual minority youth are at ______ for alcohol and drug use.

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Adolescents with parents who granted them little autonomy were found to engage in more substance use when they were also more highly engaged in disadvantaged communities.

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Rates of alcohol and other substance use have generally been lower for African American youth than for White and Hispanic youth.

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An example of an alcohol-specific effect is ______.

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Research suggests that one positive effect of parents receiving treatment has been ______

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The ______ refers to the finding that although immigrants often live in challenging conditions, they experience lower levels of substance abuse.

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What impact does behavioral disinhibition have on adolescent alcohol use?

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While parental warmth has been found to be a protective factor, ______ has been linked to regular alcohol use in adolescence.

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Children from antisocial alcoholic families would benefit most from interventions that begin in ______.

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Children whose parents abuse substances are less likely to use drugs because they see the damage it does.

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Monitoring the Future surveys repeatedly find lower rates of substance use among ______ youth than among European American adolescents.

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Alcoholic parents are at a higher risk for having children with behavioral problems, and children's behavioral problems may increase parental stress and lead to more drinking. This is an example of ______.

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Which child characteristics have scholars found to be related to childhood substance use?

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Adoptive parents of children whose biological parents had alcohol, antisocial, depressive, or other psychiatric disorders experienced double the risk of developing their own psychiatric or alcohol-related problems as adoptive parents of children without such a predisposition.

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______ of associations between parental substance use and adolescent behavior identify mechanisms and processes in the transmission of adolescent alcoholism.

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The term substance misuse refers to ______.

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Adolescents experiencing current substance abuse have been shown to have more problem behaviors, such as binge drinking, than adolescents with histories of prior abuse.

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The term substance use refers to ______.

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Which statement about how the age of onset of drinking impacts later use and abuse is most accurate?

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