Compared with Their Counterparts from Previous Decades, Today's American Adolescents

question 38

Multiple Choice

Compared with their counterparts from previous decades, today's American adolescents:

• A) spend more days per year in school.
• B) spend fewer days per year in school.
• C) are absent from school more often.
• D) are less likely to continue their schooling beyond the 12th grade.

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Definitions:

Typhoid Fever

An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi, characterized by fever, headache, constipation or diarrhea, and rash.

Systematic Desensitization

A behavioral therapy technique used to gradually expose a patient to a feared stimulus to reduce the anxiety response.

Control Group

In an experiment, the group not exposed to the treatment; contrasts with the experimental group and serves as a comparison for evaluating the effect of the treatment

Exposure Therapies

Psychological treatments involving repeated exposure to feared stimuli to reduce the fear response.