__________ is a non-adversarial means of resolution in which the divorcing couple, along with a third party such as a therapist or trained mediator, negotiate the terms of their financial, custody, and visitation settlement
a) Community divorce
b) Mediation
c) Psychic divorce
d) No-fault divorce
e) Alimony
B
You might also like to view...
For each of the following studies, say whether you would use a t test for a single sample, t test for dependent means, or a t test for independent means
(a) A psychology researcher randomly assigns a group of 50 high school students to receive a new assertiveness training program and 45 other high school students to receive the standard after-school program that focuses on social skills. She later measures how well each group performs on a measure of interpersonal assertiveness. (b) A psychologist measures 100 patients in terms of their anxiety levels before and after undergoing a newly developed treatment. (c) The coach of your college football team conducts an informal survey showing that members of the team study an average of 3.5 hours per day. The coach makes the claim that this is equivalent to the amount of time students at the college study in general. You feel that the coach is incorrect. You randomly select 50 students from the college and ask them how much they study each day. Your result is that these 50 students study an average of 5.2 hours per day. (d) A researcher tests the memory scores of each of a group of 15 students twice, once while in a very noisy room and once while in a quiet room. She then compares the scores. (e) A researcher measures the intelligence of college students (n = 25 ) who are first born in their families compared to those who were born last in their families (n = 40 ). What will be an ideal response?
Racial profiling is an example of _____
a. color-blind racism b. institutional racism c. aversive racism d. Jim Crow racism
In a recent study of socialization in elite American prep schools, Cookson and Persell concluded that "preppies":
a. become maladjusted adults as a direct result of their experiences in these schools b. develop close ties to their classmates that can be valuable in later life c. have no better chance of achieving economic success than students who go to public schools d. resent the years they spend in elite schools
"No-fault divorce" appears to have done all of the following EXCEPT:
A. eliminate fault-based grounds for divorce. B. increase the divorce rate. C. challenge the notion that children are automatically better off with their mothers. D. eliminate the adversarial divorce process.