After a Difficult Summer, Melinda, Age 14, Is No Longer

question 132

Multiple Choice

After a difficult summer, Melinda, age 14, is no longer going to babysit for her younger brother. She also has decided she is not going to play on the soccer team, is going to pursue a new interest in art, and has changed her hairstyle. Melinda is experiencing a period of:

• A)identity foreclosure.
• B)psychosocial moratorium.
• C)negative identity.
• D)identity confusion.

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Definitions:

UNIX

An operating system originally conceived in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of AT&T’s Bell Labs. In 1974, the UNIX code was rewritten in the standard programming language C. Today there are various commercial versions of UNIX.

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System, a firmware interface that initializes and tests hardware during the startup process, prior to the operating system loading.

Boot Process

The sequence of events that occurs within a computer system from power-on until the operating system is fully loaded and the user can interact with the system.

Root Directory

The top level of the filing structure in a computer system. In Windows computers, the root directory of the hard drive is represented as C:\.