In order to gain a complete understanding of adolescent development, it is vital that researchers be aware of different lives, customs and ideas across cultures. This idea reflects the
A. individual approach.
B. Western approach.
C. cultural approach.
D. ethnocentric approach.
Answer: C. cultural approach.
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a. experiment. b. observational study. c. archival study. d. survey study.
Pablo and Field (2007) found that Thai students had a high rate of self-reported altruistic behaviors. Which reason did they cite as the most important one to explain this phenomenon?
a. religion b. collectivism c. kindness d. responsibility
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a. She holds a gun to his head, forcing him to listen to it. b. She offers him a free coupon for his next dry cleaning order in exchange for listening to it. c. He decides to read suggestive passages aloud from a romantic novel while listening to it. d. She tells him to suppress his negative thoughts about her while he listens to it.
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The test you have taken is probably the MMPI-2. a. true b. false