Research suggests that adolescents who are adopted by a family with a different ethnic background than their own have lower self-esteem and take longer to adjust to their new family
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
FALSE
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Social psychological research is a necessary endeavor because our commonsense intuitions
a. tend to be very unstable. b. often are at opposite ends of each other. c. are not as shared by other people as we think. d. are generally accurate but are held with little confidence.
The text concludes that
(a) the death penalty has reduced the murder rate (b) the increasing crime rate has led to an increase in the severity of penalties (c) for an extended period, both the crime rate and the percentage of people in prison increased, but we do not understand what the causal relationships are (d) increasing the severity of punishment reliably produces corresponding decreases in the crime rate, but there are ethical reasons preventing us from increasing the severity of punishment still further
Freud teaches that genuine love emerges in the oral stage
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of Marcia's four identity statuses involves a high degree of exploration and a low degree of commitment?
A) identity moratorium B) identity diffusion C) identity achievement D) identity foreclosure