Describe the role of social and cultural factors in the development, maintenance, and treatment of Substance-Related Disorders
What will be an ideal response?
• Peer use of substances influences beliefs and behaviors
• Boys influence girls' drinking but not vice versa
• African American adolescents are less influenced by peer smoking than European Americans
• Transition to high school is a turning point for association with peers who support deviance
• School policies influence substance use (monitoring of students)
• School norms influence substance use as do neighborhood and community norms
• Number of life stressors are a factor in substance use
• Cohort efforts related to generational forgetting about the dangers associated with substance use
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You are asked to develop an effective prevention program concerning eating disorders in teens. What approach should you take? a. Utilize psychoactive medication
b. Aoid teaching about specific diets. c. Create a highly structured environment in which the teens have little personal input. d. Teach the importance of resisting the social pressure to be thin.
If an infant stops on the shallow side of the visual cliff and refuses to cross the deep side, what is your most likely conclusion?
a. The child is fatigued because crawling uses much energy. b. Depth perception prevents the child from crossing the cliff. c. The child has been distracted by something else. d. There is not enough incentive for the child to move.
The "procedure" is s subsection of this part of a research report
a. discussion c. method b. introduction d. results
Which of the following children is most likely to have a temper tantrum when her father leaves the room?
a. Nola, who has a secure attachment to her father. b. Ilsa, who has an anxious-ambivalent attachment to her father. c. Denia, who has a disorganized-disoriented attachment to her father. d. Lakesha, who has an anxious-avoidant attachment to her father.