According to Rosenthal, why do adolescents often change their answers over time to questions about their sexual activity?

A. They typically don't trust the adult researchers.
B. Their beliefs may have changed over time.
C. They don't want to appear sexually inexperienced.
D. They don't want to appear to be too sexually active.


Answer: B

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For those who wish to donate their bodies for teaching or research purposes,

a. techniques required to prevent decay are considerably less stringent than those used in atypical embalming procedure b. arrangements must be made well ahead of time c. following use of the body for scientific or educational purposes, no elements of the body will be left for burial or cremation d. careful preservation of the body is not very important e. none of these

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Which theory of personality was developed by Sigmund Freud?

a. psychoanalytic b. behavioristic c. humanistic d. psychosocial

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A. a public coping style that includes making attributions that are unstable, temporary, and global. B. the belief that one can do the behaviors necessary to achieve a desired outcome. C. a stage in which a person has higher-than-average self-esteem. D. the expectation that good events will be plentiful and bad events will be rare in the future.

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