Megan and Ella, 14, were best friends. If you saw one of them, you probably saw the other with her. How do friendships differ in early and later adolescence?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: In early adolescence, friendships are relatively exclusive, as they were in late middle childhood. In later adolescence, adolescents increasingly accept their friends’ needs to form relationships with other people.
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a. declined. b. increased. c. remained the same. d. approached 100%.
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A) dualistic B) phrenological C) scientific D) subjective
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may involve abnormalities in the a. hippocampus
b. hypothalamus. c. septum. d. basal ganglia and prefrontal cortex.
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a. transvestic fetishism b. scatologia c. frotteurism d. masochism