ReCAPP: Professional Credits: Friendship Quiz

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Friendship

Continuing Education
Self-Study Quiz
for CHES and
CFLE Contact Hours

Directions:
Read each question carefully. Circle the appropriate letter for each answer on a printed version of the self-study quiz answer sheet.

Circle only one answer for each question.

Much of one's ability to make and keep good friends develops:
1. before age five.
2. during grade school.
3. during adolescence.
4. in young adulthood.
Teens who have problems making and keeping friendships are:
1. more likely to apply peer pressure on others.
2. more likely to engage in risky behavior.
3. less likely to experience peer pressure.
4. less likely to engage in risky behavior.
The ability to make and keep good friends helps teens:
1. form healthy sexual and romantic relationships at a young age.
2. form healthy sexual and romantic relationships when they are ready.
3. delay the initiation of sexual intercourse.
4. delay the initiation of romantic relationships.
Modeling friendship from an adult's perspective:
1. is a way for educators to teach the value of friendship and the skills involved in being a friend.
2. is not perceived by teens as relevant to teen friendships.
3. can be surprisingly challenging for educators.
4. can set up expectations that are too high for teen friendships to emulate.
Active listening skills include:
1. using eye contact, listening without interruption, and taking notes.
2. showing empathy and giving compliments.
3. listening without interruption, showing empathy, and using eye contact.
4. exercising while listening to a friend.
When a listener sits slouched over or crosses her arms and legs:
1. she may be sending a non-verbal message that she isn't paying attention.
2. she may be sending a non-verbal message that she is paying attention and wants to be comfortable.
3. the room may be uncomfortably cool for a sensitive conversation.
4. she could be giving a message that she needs to use the restroom.
Which of the following is NOT an important component of active listening?
1. reflection.
2. deflection.
3. using open-ended questions.
4. neutrality.
One way that a teacher can maximize her or his effectiveness in teaching listening skills is to:
1. model listening skills.
2. avoid circulating among the youth during behavioral practice.
3. contrast the interview activity with real life experiences.
4. refrain from interrupting the students.
According to a research study conducted by Bearman and Brückner:
1. having a best friend is a more important protective factor than originally thought.
2. peer influence is most often positive.
3. peer influence is most often negative in relation to initiation of sex.
4. male and female friends have about the same influence on sexual debut and pregnancy risk.
Which of the following is NOT a skill needed to make and keep friends?
1. giving support and encouragement.
2. disagreeing with respect.
3. respecting limits.
4. giving money when friend is in need.

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