How does divorce affect children?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
- Only about 50% of children in the United States spend their entire childhoods living in the same household with both their parents.
- Immediately after divorce, the effects on children in the middle-childhood years can be serious.
- Effects of divorce are dependent on the economic condition of the family and the hostility level of the spouses prior to the divorce.
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a. I must have love and affection from certain people. b. Others must perform well in all endeavors. c. Events should always go the way I like. d. Other people should always behave competently and be considerate of me.
Describe what is known about the effectiveness of psychotherapy in general
What will be an ideal response?
Rats with hippocampal damage will differ in which of the following ways from rats with intact hippocampi?
A. Previously extinguished freezing will reappear in response to the conditioned stimulus. B. Extinction of previously learned freezing behavior will generalize to all contexts. C. Extinction of previously learned freezing behavior will occur in the same place in which extinction training occurred, but freezing will occur in all other contexts. D. No differences will be observed, because the amygdala is responsible for managing context, not the hippocampus.
Riley is a 12-year- old girl. Riley _________
A) ?may be able to conceive if she is sexually active. B) ?most likely is significantly shorter than most boys her age. C) ?does not yet experience sexual attraction. D) ?most likely will not begin the process of puberty for another year or two.