Shani is trying to decide whether to encourage her daughter to go out for swimming. What should you tell her about the impact of sport participation on an adolescent female's self-esteem?

What will be an ideal response?


In the past decades, girls' participation in sports has increased dramatically because of the sociopolitical environment. Girls who participate in greater amounts of sports tend to have a higher sense of self-worth as college students. Part of the way sports participation impacts self-esteem is by affecting girls' body image and sense of physical competence. Girls involved in sports tend to feel better about their bodies and tend to be more physically competent. Both of these features promote esteem.

Psychology

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After viewing the video "Adolescence: Identity and Role Development," highlight some of major issues that arise during adolescence in relation to developing a sense of identity

What will be an ideal response?

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Parents in China are less likely to emphasize parental control and are more likely to express affection than are parents in the United States

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Psychology

When our assignment of __________ to an image is ambiguous, we can shift back and forth between seeing two different images in one picture—what we thought was part of the background can also shift to look like the most important part of the picture.

-grouping -proximity -figure and ground -binocular disparity

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If differences in heredity are important for differences in IQ scores, what should we expect to find? a. IQ correlations should be equally high for monozygotic and dizygotic twins. b. IQ correlations should be higher for dizygotic than monozygotic twins

c. IQ correlations should be higher for monozygotic than dizygotic twins. d. IQ correlations should be higher for twins reared apart than reared together.

Psychology