Which of the Following Is Not True of Divorce

question 7

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not true of divorce?

• A) It usually occurs after a long period of slowly increasing unhappiness.
• B) It is usually the result of a mutual decision by both partners to end the marriage.
• C) In the short term, it often brings about turmoil, animosity, and apprehension.
• D) Children can adapt more successfully to a divorce when they have good support systems.

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Definitions:

Impulse Controls

The ability to resist or delay an impulse, drive, or temptation to act and involves self-regulation skills.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has been repeatedly presented along with an unconditioned stimulus.

Unconditioned Response

A natural, automatic, and innate reaction to a stimulus that occurs without prior learning or conditioning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.