How can siblings influence each other's development?
What will be an ideal response?
Siblings are an important influence on each other's development. Through interactions with siblings children learn relationship skills such as conflict resolution. They learn that relationships continue even through arguments and anger. Siblings offer each other social support and assistance with academic, family, and peer challenges. They help each other manage stressful life events and reduce the anxiety and depressive symptoms that often accompany them.
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youths. Additionally, parents are concerned about the legislation that requires schools to recommend that their children be evaluated for ADHD. Because of this controversy, medication prescriptions for children and adolescents have dramatically decreased." With respect to Professor Waddell's statement, it is correct to say that a controversy exists concerning ____. a. the 'quick fix' nature of the medication and prescribed to children and the tendency to use medication without first attempting psychotherapy or home/academic interventions b. legislation that requires schools to recommend that their children be evaluated for ADHD c. the need to test the medications prescribed for youths on youths d. medication prescriptions for children and adolescents have dramatically decreased
When Enos finds that he is falling short of his study goals, he sets up the desk in his dorm room facing a blank wall so he cannot look out the window, and he cuts his cell phone and the TV off when he studies. Enos has been able to change his passive studying into reflective, goal-oriented learning by
a. switching to a massed practice strategy. b. using the steps in the LISAN method. c. taking corrective action. d. punishing his lack of goal attainment.
Nick's grandfather has just been diagnosed with glaucoma, and was told by his doctor that this condition results from a blockage of fluid in the anterior chamber of the eye. Based on Nick's understanding of the anatomy of the eye, he was able to tell his grandfather that the blockage involves his a. vitreous humor, which circulates around the cornea and lens
b. aqueous humor, which circulates around the cornea and lens. c. vitreous humor, located in the main chamber of the eyeball. d. aqueous humor, located in the main chamber of the eyeball.
In boys, the first visible evidence of puberty is ______
a. the growth of the testes b. the appearance of pubic hair c. a deepening of the voice d. the appearance of a beard