Why is it difficult to estimate the prevalence of sexual orientation in adolescents?
What will be an ideal response?
First, many sexual minority youth do not identify themselves that way until early adulthood or later. Second, reporting of same-sex attraction and behavior is not stable. A study of 7th- to 12-grade students over a 6-year period revealed migration over time in both directions--from opposite-sex attraction/behavior to same-sex attraction/behavior and vice versa.
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The thin layer of cells that cover the surface of the forebrain is called the:
A. cortex B. myelin sheath C. cerebellum D. thalamus
Siblings may have a stronger influence on identity development than parents.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Kimble (1984) administered a scale that measures where psychologists fall on the ____ continuum.?
a. ?eclectic-focused b. ?scientific-humanistic c. ?premodernism-postmodernism d. ?empirical-rational
Little Mark plays with a balloon that pops in his face and frightens him. The next time he sees a balloon, he starts to cry. The type of learning illustrated in this example is called
A. habituation. B. latent learning. C. operant conditioning. D. classical conditioning.