Teenage children of immigrants do well in school, despite language problems and poverty. They excel because
a. their parents practice authoritative parenting.
b. they are ostracized socially by native-born Americans.
c. their families strongly encourage educational success.
d. they read the inscription on the Statue of Liberty.
C
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a. the media that target adolescent females usually portray gender-stereotyped romances. b. because of the pressure to be like other adolescents, almost all adolescent romances are highly gender stereotyped. c. most of these relationships last only 1 to 2 months. d. in most heterosexual romantic relationships, women think so intensely about their boyfriend that they do not take time to consider their own self-worth.
The average age of onset for separation anxiety disorder is ____
a. 2 to 3 years of age b. 4 to 6 years of age c. 7 to 8 years of age d. 9 to 10 years of age
Obedience to immoral demands from authority figures may be due, in part, to our learning in early childhood to obey such authority figures such as teachers and parents. This is known as the __________ hypothesis
a. social comparison c. social conformity b. socialization d. pure obedience
The self-serving bias is the tendency to
a. credit our successes to internal, dispositional factors and our failures to external, situational influences. b. describe our successes in greater detail than our failures. c. repeat ourselves when we think we're right. d. take care of our own needs first, and worry about others later.