While GDL laws have been enacted to reduce the frequency of teen vehicle accidents, it is still up to ____________ to monitor teen driving skills and enforce restrictions in accordance with appropriate driving behaviors
A) driving instructors
B) older siblings
C) parents
D) friends
C) parents. States vary in how strictly they enforce GDL laws, and the accident rate for teens is still higher than for older drivers even in states where these laws are enforced. Experts point out that "parents remain the true enforcers of driving privileges among teenagers because parents can control access to the car."
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
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A. downward social comparison. B. unrealistic optimism. C. the actor-observer effect. D. the fundamental attribution error.
Which of the following is a type of learning in which we learn to cease paying attention to familiar stimuli?
a. habituation. b. dishabituation. c. perseveration. d. a perceptual set.
Because 15-year-old Lisa stays up late texting her friends and then gets up early for school,
she tends to be very sleepy in class, a condition common to teenagers known as a. insomnia. b. narcolepsy. c. hypersomnia. d. hypnopompic conditioning.