Dorie lives in a household where her parents are gone most of the time. Even when they are home, Dorie goes to school wearing dirty clothes and having had no breakfast. What type of parents is Dorie likely to have?

A. uninvolved
B. permissive
C. authoritarian
D. authoritative


Answer: A

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a. ?are more likely to adopt the attitudes of their parents when they are prejudicial than when they are egalitarian b. ?are more likely to adopt the attitudes of their parents when they are egalitarian than when they are prejudicial c. ?adopt whatever attitudes about people that their parents hold d. ?generally do not learn attitudes about people from their parents

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a. reinforcement b. the conditioned stimulus c. the unconditioned stimulus d. punishment

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What is the purpose of defense mechanisms according to psychoanalytic theory?

What will be an ideal response?

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