Research on the Interaction of the Influence of Parents and Peers

question 99

Multiple Choice

Research on the interaction of the influence of parents and peers suggests which of the following?

• A) Family environment rarely affects adolescents' choice of friends.
• B) Friends who do not value school cannot overcome the positive effects of authoritative parenting.
• C) Peers and parents have a stronger influence on adolescents' school achievement in countries (such as the United States) in which schools serve heterogeneous groups of students.
• D) In countries where students attend different schools based on whether they plan to attend college, peers have a significantly stronger influence on adolescents than their families do.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

Spontaneous recovery refers to the reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a period of non-exposure to the conditioned stimulus.

Conditioned Responses

Conditioned responses are the behaviors that result from the association between a previously neutral stimulus and a conditioned stimulus through conditioning.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening of a conditioned response by not reinforcing the conditioning stimulus.

Conditioned Forgetting

A phenomenon where memory is lost or altered due to the introduction of specific conditions or stimuli, often involving the suppression of unwanted memories.