A(n) ________ is a well-developed set of ideas that proposes an explanation for observed phenomena.

A melting pot model suggests to adolescents who are members of minority groups that

A) society should be color-blind and that individual cultural identities should be assimilated into a unified U.S. culture. B) minority group members can form a bicultural identity in which they draw from their own cultural identity while integrating themselves into the dominant culture. C) racial and ethnic factors become a central part of adolescents' identity and are not submerged in an attempt to assimilate into the majority culture. D) society is made up of diverse, coequal cultural groups that should preserve their individual cultural features.

Independent adolescents who are friendly with their peers, self-assertive, and cooperative are likely to have ________ parents

A) uninvolved B) authoritarian C) permissive D) authoritative