Which of the Following Is Not a Characteristic of an Adolescent's

question 101

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a characteristic of an adolescent's growing emotional autonomy?

• A) Adolescents become more likely to believe that their life would have been better if they had their friends' parents.
• B) Adolescents become less likely to hold onto idealized pictures of their parents.
• C) Adolescents become more likely to appreciate that their parents may act differently with their own friends than they do with their children.
• D) When something goes wrong, adolescents become less likely to assume that their parents will "make everything better" and become more likely to rely on themselves to straighten things out.

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Definitions:

Solomon Four-Group Design

Experimental design in which the experimental and control groups are studied with and without a pretest.

External Validity

The extent to which the results of a study can be generalized or applied to other settings, populations, or situations.

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment that are manipulated by the researcher to observe their effect on the dependent variables.

Conceptual Replications

Repeating a study with different methods or under different conditions to verify the findings of the original study.