An analysis of "virginity pledges" that encourage adolescents to promise to abstain from premarital sex has found that
A. pledging works well in schools in which nearly everyone takes the pledge.
B. a large majority of adolescents who take a virginity pledge will deny having done so five years later.
C. pledging works equally well for adolescents of all ages.
D. pledging has a significant positive effect, even in schools in which few students take the pledge.
Answer: B
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a. They identified five major genes that control certain aspects of social behavior. b. They assembled the points of agreement in the theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler. c. They observed the behavior of children in school and at play in several cultures. d. They looked for correlated words to describe personality in the English language.
An "autobiography" of Jung was evidently written not by Jung but by an assistant who ____.?
a. ?slandered him personally b. ?altered and/or deleted some of Jung's writings to present him in a manner suiting his family and followers c. ?exaggerated the degree of the break between Freud and Jung d. ?expanded Jung's theories and attributed the expansion to Jung e. ?None of the choices are correct.
Which best describes the "paternal investment theory" of puberty?
a. Moms have the greatest impact on the timing of early puberty, and having a highly involved mom appears to delay its onset. b. Moms have the greatest impact on the timing of early puberty, and having a highly involved mom appears to accelerate its onset. c. Dads have the greatest impact on the timing of early puberty, and having a highly involved dad appears to delay its onset. d. Dads have the greatest impact on the timing of early puberty, and having a highly involved dad appears to accelerate its onset.
Within-subjects designs reduce variability in the data compared with between-subjects designs.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)