Which of the following statements about peer relationships in schools is false?
a. Students who feel cared about by their peer group are more committed to school, value learning more fully, and are more likely to engage in learning tasks.
b. Recent research indicates that positive interaction with peers can help students overcome the negative effects of stressful home lives and difficult relationships with parents.
c. Exclusion from one's student peer group can result not only in emotional discomfort, but also in changes to brain chemistry and activity.
d. Students who are excluded from supportive peer relationships are likely to experience emotional struggles but generally do as well as or better than their peers academically.
d
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a. memory consolidation b. emotionally-based memories c. procedural memories d. episodic memories
Hierarchic integration is a process in which:
a. behaviors that are initially expressed in a diffuse, nonspecific way, eventually separate out and become more skilled, specific, and independent of one another b. skills and behaviors that are initially separate and independent of one another are combined and can work together as a harmonious unit c. skills that a child developed at an earlier time in his development remain the same through adulthood d. none of these answers is correct
Which of the following groups is most likely to experience sexual abuse?
A. Families from an ethnic minority group, especially Black and Hispanic ethnicities B. Families who live in lower socioeconomic groups C. Families who are from Caucasian backgrounds D. Families from all ethnic and racial backgrounds and at all socioeconomic levels
According to the textbook, which of the following requires thinking along multiple dimensions about an abstract phenomenon?
a. Crowds b. Peer groups c. Clusters