Sharleen believes she is unlike anyone else and is invulnerable. When she is having a crisis and her parents try to talk to her, Sharleen says, "You can't possibly understand what I'm going through!" This reflects which aspect of adolescent cognitive development?
a. imaginary audience
b. formal operations
c. deductive reasoning
d. personal fable
e. role diffusion
d
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A. identity B. segregation C. differences in abilities D. typing
What is the tendency to deem our self as superior to peers?
A. self-enhancement B. openness to experiences C. cynicism D. sensitivity to honor
Freud's work may be criticized because
a. the latency stage is not as sexually latent as Freud believed. b. the id, ego and superego are difficult to measure. c. Freud's subjects were individuals who sought therapy and could afford to pay for it. d. all of these
The Oedipus complex, the psychosexual conflict that occurs at the phallic stage of development, is characterized by a three- to five-year-old boy who
A. represses his need for genital self-stimulation. B. loves his mother but has feelings of anger and envy toward his father. C. loves his father but has feelings of anger and envy toward his mother. D. fantasizes about tragic Greek heroes.