Describe how poverty may affect adolescents
What will be an ideal response?
In some households, there is not enough food and adolescents go to school and to bed hungry. Because many poor
households lack health insurance, adolescents living in poverty are unable to afford good medical care, and minor
illnesses, left untreated, become major ones. Poverty may impede adolescents' ability to learn and can slow their
cognitive development, making academic success less likely. Adolescents living in persistent poverty are less well
adjusted and have more conduct problems, in part because their parents' emotional well-being is reduced, making
them less-successful caregivers.
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A. a division of personality within the person B. a divergence between the person's chronological age and their intellectual performance C. an inability to make an intimate connection with other people D. an inward break from reality
Intervention focuses on ____
a. noncompliance b. assimilation c. motivation d. treatment
Heather is friendly and always willing to help a friend. Heather is high in what?
A. openness to experience B. extroversion C. neuroticism D. agreeableness
Human perception is
(a) active (b) passive (c) like a video camera, in that it makes an accurate and continuous recording of perceived events (d) like a photocopy machine, in that it makes an accurate recording of a perceived events