African Americans are more likely to use physical punishment as a means to correct their children; however, this is also accompanied with ____ so that the children understand that the intent is to teach them right from wrong
a. a high degree of warmth
b. a high degree of shame
c. a low degree of acceptance
d. a low degree of empathy
A. African-American families are more likely to use corporal punishment; however, this is accompanied by high responsiveness (warmth). African Americans tend to combine physical punishment with parental warmth, so that children understand their parents' behavior not as a frightening and threatening loss of parental control but as a practice intended to teach them right from wrong and the importance of obeying their parents.
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a) reactance b) persuasion c) reaction formation d) unconscious motivation
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a. it must be linked to sound, since users of sign language don't have "tip-of-the-tongue" states. b. verbal information is indexed semantically, and not by sound or form. c. semantic categories help organize memories involving words and concepts. d. the organization is based on human physiology, and so culture has few effects on retrieval.