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Lisaclaire

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When peers and parents both support academics, adolescents tend to be successful students. When peers and parents are at odds on the importance or value of academics, which of the following is most often true according to research?
 
  a. Parents' attitudes will always have the most influence on their adolescent child's academic performance.
  b. Peers' attitudes are likely to have the most influence on the adolescent's academic performance.
  c. There is no systematic relationship, sometimes peers are more influential, sometimes parents.
  d. Parents' attitudes have more influence only when parents are warm and permissive.

Question 2

High levels of parental monitoring and control are associated with which of the following outcomes regardless of ethnicity or social class?
 
  a. More drug use but less involvement in other criminal activity among adolescents.
  b. More deviant behavior and drug use among adolescents.
  c. More gang membership among adolescents.
  d. Less deviant behavior and drug use among adolescents.



Anna

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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

d



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