Fifteen-year-old Steven’s relationship with his parents has changed over the past year. How might a typical adolescent’s relationship with parents change during this time period?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
1 . Adolescents begin to assert their autonomy and begin to question their parents’ rules and ideas.
2 . They may turn to their peers for support and exclude their parents at times.
3 . Even with their newfound autonomy, most adolescents and their families get along quite well and have good relationships, with only 20 percent having a troubled relationship.
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a. True b. False
Harvey is diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. His mother severely abused him from the time he was six years old. The first of his personalities developed around seven. According to his psychoanalyst, the development of separate personalities served the purpose of ____
a. providing substitute significant others to replace an unacceptable parent b. taking the pain of the abuse so that his core personality would survive c. helping Harvey to remember his mother's viciousness when he grew older d. getting Harvey additional attention from family members
The idea that behavior must be judged relative to the values of the culture in which it occurs is known as ethnocentrism
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Clouding of the crystalline lens of the eye is known as
A. vascular sclerosis B. senile macular degeneration C. senile miosis D. cataracts E. presbyopia