How does the suicidal behavior of female adolescents differ from that of male adolescents?
What will be an ideal response?
Female adolescents: more likely to attempt suicide than males; and more likely to cut their wrists or take an overdose of sleeping pills-methods less likely to result in death
Male adolescents: more likely to succeed in committing suicide (though less likely to attempt); and more likely to use more lethal means, such as guns, in their suicide attempts
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Parental monitoring is most likely to be effective and healthy when it is
rigid and controlling. part of a warm, supportive relationship. relaxed and permissive. part of authoritarian parenting.
Which of the following is not a likely reason for the tapering of gestural communication in children in the middle of their second year of life?
a. Gestures are not an effective means of communication when the recipient is not in the same room as the child. b. Parents tend to encourage verbalizations over gestures. c. Children begin to understand that gestures do not really symbolize objects and actions. d. Gestures are primarily understood only by a limited number of adults.
Electromagnetic radiation
A. does not really exist. B. can be described as the movement of tiny indivisible particles called photons. C. is made up of tiny particles called electromagnetons. D. describes only the type of energy that is visible to the human eye.