According to Phinney, adolescents can achieve an ethnic identity in all of the following ways EXCEPT

A) by adopting an alternating bicultural identity.
B) by adopting a blended bicultural identity.
C) by distancing themselves from their culture.
D) by continuing to find out information about their ethnic culture.


D) by continuing to find out information about their ethnic culture. During Phinney's third stage, the achievement of an ethnic identity involves settling on a particular identity, and does not depend on the process of acquiring more information.

Psychology

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Which of the following statement expresses the James-Lange theory of emotions??

a. ?Emotion results from the activation of certain neural centers in the brain. b. ?Emotion results from how an individual perceives a situation, with or without physiological arousal. c. ?Emotion is completely a psychological state. There are no physiological equivalents to the emotions. d. ?Physiological arousal precedes the experience of an emotion. e. ?The emotion is experienced first, which is followed by physiological arousal.

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Blaine works in a factory producing car stereos. He notices that workers produce more stereos by the end of the day when they work together in the same room than when they work in separate rooms. His observation is consistent with a classic study conducted by which researcher?

a. Lewin b. Asch c. Triplett d. Sherif

Psychology

Discuss nine ways in which people can remove distress from stress

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology