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Jkov05

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Discuss peer pressure and its role in conformity and deviant behaviors.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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When considering a child's comprehension of language versus a child's ability to produce language, researchers have found that
 
  a. children's vocabularies are composed primarily of words they do not understand.
  b. children's productive language far exceeds their receptive language.
  c. children's receptive language far exceeds their productive language.
  d. children have difficulty using words that their parents tend to underextend.



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Answer to Question 1

Susceptibility to peer pressure heightens during early adolescence but declines in young adulthood. For some children, extreme orientation to the peer group is associated with deviant behaviors. Children who have parents that are unresponsive and uninvolved may be more vulnerable to peer pressure.

Answer to Question 2

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