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Stava is 13. Her parents are beginning to like Stava's preferred styles of clothing and music, and Stava is shifting her attitudes to agree with her parents' values of financial responsibility. Which process does this best illustrate?
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Reciprocal socialization
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According to the text, an important, and often unintended, benefit of marriage enhancement programs is
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Improved parenting.
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What are the two main developmental construction views?
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Continuity and discontinuity
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As a child, Eizo did not receive comfort from his mother when he needed it. Now, as an adult, Eizo has difficulty relating emotionally to others. This is consistent with which view of constructing relationships?
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Continuity
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Which of the following statements about the discontinuity view of relationships is TRUE?
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The view that most people develop different ways of relating to different types of people across the life span defines the
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Discontinuity view.
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During the apex of pubertal growth, the greatest conflict is between
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Mothers and sons.
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An adolescent exclaims, "I wish you were like other parents!" Which cognitive change is most likely responsible for this statement?
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Idealism
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Ron's parents, Kevin and Trisha, are experiencing the most dissatisfaction in their marriage that they've ever had. It's most likely that Ron is
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An adolescent.
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Lucy's father finds information for her, helps structure choices for her, and provides her with guidance. This demonstrates that he is an effective
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Manager.
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Which parental factor is most related to juvenile delinquency?
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Inadequate parental monitoring
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Which of the following findings about parents as the managers of their children's lives is TRUE?
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Mothers are more likely than fathers to have a managerial role in parenting from infancy through adolescence.
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Which of the following is not a reason given for why authoritative parenting is usually the most effective parenting style?
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Authoritative parents tend to be more consistent than parents using other parenting styles.
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According to the text, in American society when things go wrong with an adolescent, the adolescent's problems are usually attributed to
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The mother.
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Studies of adolescent-parent conflict have shown that conflict
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increases during early adolescence, but then declines through late adolescence.
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