When parents are aware of their teens' whereabouts and companions, they are engaging in ______.

One reason that traditional educational practices may not lead to critical thinking is that

A) those educational practices do not account for how adolescents make cognitive progress from one stage to the next stage. B) the focus is on what to think instead of how to think. C) the emphasis is on mental shortcuts that can be used to solve problems. D) there are cultural differences in the meaning of critical thinking.

When a distribution is skewed, the researcher who is interested in central

tendency should use the a. mean b. median c. mode d. all of these are appropriate