Peer pressure

a. is a concept that parents use to make excuses for the moral lessons that they failed to instill in their children.
b. is a myth that is used to justify irresponsible actions of adolescents.
c. can be a negative event, but can also have positive effects.
d. has been shown to be much more prevalent in private schools than in public schools.

Answer: C

Psychology

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A) humans will always eventually exhibit aggressive tendencies. B) in humans, innate behavioural patterns, including aggression, are infinitely malleable and modifiable. C) there are strong regional differences in the endorsement of aggression as a solution to social problems. D) humans, lacking inhibitory mechanisms, must rely on cultural norms to curb aggression. E) frustration often contributes to aggression in otherwise peaceable societies.

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Donald Hebb (1949) distinguished between two types of memory that he called

a. implicit and explicit b. declarative and procedural c. short-term and long-term d. repressed and unrepressed

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