Delinquency Will Be Reduced If Parents Provide the Type of Structure

question 105

Multiple Choice

Delinquency will be reduced if parents provide the type of structure that integrates children into families,while giving them the ability to assert their individuality and regulate their own behavior,a phenomenon referred to as __________.

• A)parental efficacy
• B)balancing of interest
• C)familicide
• D)tracking

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Definitions:

Unconscious

The part of the mind that is inaccessible to conscious thought but that affects behavior and emotions, according to psychoanalytic theory.

Id

In psychoanalysis, a part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest.

Ego

Part of the psyche that mediates between the conscious, the unconscious, and reality, operating based on the reality principle, according to Freudian theory.

Basic Traits

Fundamental personality characteristics that are relatively stable over time and across situations.