Studies show that an “authoritarian family” tends to produce an adolescent who is ___________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following are NOT necessarily characteristics of an authoritarian personality? people with authoritarian personalities tend to:
   1.Have experienced harsh family rearing strategies.
   2.Hate their parents.
   3.Idolize power figures.
   4.Strive for a changing world order.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 2 & 4
   D. 1 & 3

2. Which of the following criticisms of family and couples therapies are valid?
   1: These treatments are not as effective as most individual treatments for problems relating to family or relationship conflict.
   2: The attraction of these therapies may reflect little more than the charisma of those who developed them.
   3: Bona fide treatments only produce beneficial outcomes for a minority of cases in 20 sessions or fewer.
   4: These has been a relative lack of research on many of these therapies.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 3 & 4
   D. 2 & 4

3. An authoritarian personality may possess the diametrically opposite characteristics of aggression and submission. This can be explained by:

   A. balance theory
   B. congruity theory
   C. cognitive dissociation theory
   D. a & b

4. Two characteristics of authoritarian parents are that they demonstrate:

   A. high levels of parental control and high levels of parental responsiveness
   B. low levels of parental control and no parental responsiveness
   C. low levels of parental control and low levels of parental responsiveness
   D. high levels of parental control and low levels of parental responsiveness

5. Of the following psychologists, who described the identity crisis as a major problem faced by the adolescent?

   A. Horney
   B. Piaget
   C. Erikson
   D. Freud

6. The growth of facial hair in an adolescent male is an example of a ________________?

   A. primary sex characteristic
   B. secondary sex characteristic
   C. latent stage trait
   D. sex-linked trait

7. Which extensive longitudinal research effort involving hundreds of families concluded that we need prevention strategies to reduce child and adolescent antisocial behavior?

   A. Aggression replacement training
   B. What Works program
   C. Statement validity assessment
   D. The Cambridge study

8. Psychoneurosis tends to be___________?

   A. Severe than the psychoses
   B. Milder than neuroses
   C. Milder than psychoses
   D. About the same severity as the psychoses

9. When there is a conflict between bits of information received by two or more senses, which sense tends to dominate the others?

   A. hearing only
   B. vision
   C. smell
   D. touch

10. Which of the following is the change factor of tends and interests:

    A. Conditions
    B. Time
    C. Experiences
    D. All of these