Paula is a very good student in high school. When her teachers encourage her to consider attending college, Paula's response is that she has always assumed that she would get married, raise a family, and be a good mother, just as her mother is

She seems unwilling to really think about another option for her life. According to Marcia, Paula's identity status is most likely:
a. diffusion
b. identity achievement
c. moratorium
d. foreclosure

d,. pp. 305-307

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You are completing a research project on the history of mental illness for your psychology course. Based on your reading, if you visited an asylum in sixteenth-century Europe, you would likely find __________.

A. a place that mixed together the mentally ill, the poor, criminals, and the physically ill B. exorcisms being done by priests C. a place where people were given good food, work, and rest, so that they could recover D. a warehouse of mentally ill people living and dying in conditions of filth and cruelty

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Which of the following is true regarding the comparison of psychologists with psychiatrists?

a) Only psychiatrists can be called doctors. b) Psychiatrists attend medical school, whereas psychologists do not. c) Psychologists are licensed to provide psychotherapy, but psychiatrists are not. d) Only psychiatrists can prescribe medication for psychological disorders.

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