Describe the differences between adolescent girls and boys in friendships.

What will be an ideal response?


From about five years of age forward, boys are more likely than girls to associate in large clusters. Boys are more likely to participate in organized games and sports than are girls. Boys are also likely to engage more often than girls in competition, conflict, ego displays, and risk taking. Boys are more likely than girls to seek dominance, while girls are more likely to engage in collaborative discourse, in which they talk and act in a more reciprocal manner. Girls' friendships in adolescence are more likely to focus on intimacy; boys friendships tend to emphasize power and excitement. Boys may discourage one another from openly disclosing their problems because they perceive that self-disclosure is not masculine.

Psychology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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After Wearing's brain injury, he could still play the piano, but he could no longer remember his surroundings for more than a minute or so. How would a scientist describe this situation?

A. Wearing's injury affected his prospective memory, but his semantic memory remained intact. B. Wearing's injury affected his semantic memory, but his prospective memory remained intact. C. The injury affected his procedural memory, but his episodic memory remained intact. D. The injury affected his episodic memory, but his procedural memory remained intact.

Psychology

Cassie spends all of her time thinking about the things she has done wrong

She replays negative events over and over in her mind. As a result, Cassie is suffering from depression. This is caused by the process known as A) rumination. B) remembering. C) confusion. D) pessimism.

Psychology

Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Discrete quantitative variables are typically real numbers.

Psychology