According to the text, the term "hooking up," to adolescents, is __________
a) getting a cell phone
b) the installation of computer Internet service
c) a vague term that covers everything involved in dating from kissing to sexual intercourse
d) a specific term meaning the use of the Internet to gamble or play video games
Answer: c
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a. exhibiting generativity. b. in a social status known as emerging adulthood. c. experiencing premature identity formation. d. caring for her elderly parents.
In recent decades, research has determined that Piaget's theory was very useful in terms of ____
a. its ability to completely understand infant cognitive development b. its overall description of infant cognitive development c. its theoretical explanation of infant cognitive development d. its explanation of object permanence
When Latané and Darley replicated their experiment on helping behaviors as a field experiment, they had two burly men steal a case of beer from a convenience store, and then measured the number of customers who reported the robbery
Why would they replicate their laboratory study in a field setting? a. to ensure psychological realism b. to enhance internal validity c. to enhance external validity d. to test the p-value
In the infamous Psychological Bulletin article that reanalyzed studies of college students' reports of sexual contact with adults during childhood, the authors recommended which of the following?
A) All age of consent laws should be abolished and sex with children should be allowed B) Researchers should not equate the experience of 5-year-old victims with the experiences of 17-yearolds who have sexual contact with adults C) That age of consent laws should only apply to female victims of child-adult sexual contact, and not with boys D) Research into the benefits of adolescent-adult contact should be conducted