What are the risk factors for teenage pregnancy in girls?

What will be an ideal response?


Student answers could include any of the following factors: living in poverty, family instability, less parental monitoring, early age of first sexual intercourse, lack of education and job opportunities, poor educational systems, lower self-efficacy, higher external locus of control, perception that they have few educational and career options in their lives, increased risk-taking, and already having had a baby.

Psychology

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____ has had the greatest influence on our understanding of cognitive development

a. Lev Vygotsky b. Sigmund Freud c. B.F. Skinner d. Jean Piaget

Psychology

Emotional sensitivity toward others and the ability to identify with their thoughts and feelings is called:

A) apathy. B) emotionality. C) empathy. D) affect.

Psychology

The parenting style characterized by high warms but low control is the permissive style

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Psychology

Responses no longer followed by reward usually weaken in strength and disappear. According to Amsel, the extinction of a response is due to the occurrence of ______.

A. anxiety B. reduction in drive C. increase in habit strength from other responses D. frustration

Psychology