Which of the following statements about adolescent friendships is FALSE?
A) Asian American parents are more likely than Latino and African American parents to discourage their children from having peer relationships.
B) Adolescents with secure attachments to parents tend to have better peer relationships than adolescents with insecure attachments.
C) An adolescent's best friend is usually of the same gender, race, and SES.
D) Adolescent friends tend to coerce each other into doing things.
Answer: D
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a. involved pairing rabbits with objects that elicited a higher intensity of fear. b. emphasized the symbolic meaning that the child attached to the rabbits. c. was similar to Wolpe's later techniques involving reciprocal inhibition. d. emphasized the replacement of irrational cognitions with more logical cognitions.
A researcher is studying the amount of sleep college students get each night. She notices that there is a lot of variability in the data, with some students typically sleeping for around 8 hours a night and some sleeping around 5 hours a night
One way to measure how spread out the data scores are is to use: a. the arithmetic mean. b. meta-analysis. c. inferential statistics. d. the standard deviation.
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a. 75% for aerobic; 75% for strength b. 75% for aerobic; 50% for strength c. 50% for aerobic; 50% for strength d. 50% for aerobic; 20% for strength
Research shows that reading children's stories aloud during the 7th and 8th months of pregnancy will result in
A) newborns who can sound out the words of the story. B) newborns who can recognize specific story lines and themes. C) newborns who are more likely to be good at language acquisition. D) none of the above.