Adolescents may be particularly vulnerable when breakups occur because
A) adolescents may have difficulty developing consummate love relationships in the future.
B) it puts relationships with their friends at risk.
C) their sense of themselves and their self-worth are still evolving and sometimes fragile.
D) adolescents may be at more risk for divorce later in life.
C
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In cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitions are modified directly through
a. negative punishment. b. social mediation. c. cognitive intervention. d. psychopharmacology.
The tendency for conflict to encourage further conflict is best explained by
a. the norm of reciprocity. b. a value shaping process. c. an excitation transfer effect. d. the inclusive aggression norm.
Research by Öhman and colleagues involved classical conditioning and used skin
conductance as a measure of conditioned emotional responses. They found that a. conditioning only occurred when there was conscious awareness of the stimuli. b. stimuli of which participants were unaware were more easily conditioned than those of which they were aware. c. the use of fear-relevant stimuli produced the response. d. the use of fear-irrelevant stimuli produced the response. e. both fear-relevant and fear-irrelevant stimuli produced the response.
Emma often shoplifts, as well as other petty crimes, with her group of friends. Even though she has heard that people eventually get caught while shoplifting, she feels that it will never happen to her. Emma's belief is characteristic of
A. social comparison. B. a personal fable. C. perspective thinking. D. the imaginary audience phenomenon.