What term is used to describe adolescents' sense of invulnerability that can lead them to engage in high-risk behaviors?

a) death wish
b) self-delusion
c) personal fable
d) self-injurious tendency

C

Psychology

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Major, sustained clashes between adolescents and parents is

A) the result of the secular trend in American society. B) influenced by generational conflicts caused by the generation gap. C) simply an inevitable part of adolescence. D) usually a continuity of patterns of conflict that began during preadolescence.

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In systematic desensitization, a client who becomes anxious while imagining a step in the stimulus hierarchy is:

A. instructed to go back to a prior step B. told to focus on the nature of the anxiety C. to remain relaxed and continue to imagine the step until no longer anxious D. required to reorder the steps in the stimulus hierarchy

Psychology