Research Indicates That Conflict Between Adolescents and Parents

question 26

Multiple Choice

Research indicates that conflict between adolescents and parents

• A)is a necessary feature of growing up.
• B)gets more severe across the adolescent years.
• C)generally involves fairly minor issues.
• D)is usually worse than parents expect.

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Definitions:

Biological Explanations

These explanations attribute behaviors, mental states, and physiological conditions to biological factors, such as genetic, neurological, or evolutionary mechanisms.

Human Behaviour

Refers to the range of actions and mannerisms exhibited by humans in conjunction with their environment, which are influenced by culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics, authority, rapport, hypnosis, persuasion, coercion, and genetics.

Releasers

Specific stimuli in the environment thought by ethologists to trigger aggressive responses.

Ethologists

Scientists who study animal behavior in natural environments, focusing on the biological and evolutionary contexts of behavior.