What is intimacy and how does it affect friendships in adolescence?
What will be an ideal response?
Intimacy is the degree to which two people share personal knowledge, thoughts, and feelings. Adolescent friends confide hopes and fears and help each other understand what is going on in their world. This is a valued feature of adolescent friendships. Females tend to have more intimate friendships than boys.
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a. serial processing. b. parallel processing. c. bottom-up processing. d. top-down processing.
The psychological approach known as _____ was proposed as a way to make the problem of other minds a non-issue.
A) structuralism B) phrenology C) mentalism D) behaviourism
People who shy away from creative activities because they fear being overwhelmed by a grandiosity that is uncontrollable are suffering from an:
a. understimulated self b. paranoid self c. psychotic self d. overstimulated self
A psychologist who teaches a corporation how to keep employees motivated would most likely be a(n) _____ psychologist, according to your textbook
a) social b) educational c) consulting d) industrial/organizational