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Jacob is African American. He has recently become friends with Eli who is caucasian. They have found that they have a lot of the same interests, including sports and video games. They are spending more and more of their time together. This friendship may result in ______.

Which individual depicts a person more likely to experience peer victimization?

Kumar has always been driven to seek out dangerous activities. He enjoyed climbing to the tops of trees and jumping off them when he was very small. He would seek out more dangerous activities as he became older. Kumar lives with just his dad in a lower socioeconomic community. There isn’t much to do in his neighborhood so he gets into a lot of trouble. This trouble just increases his father’s rage and aggression towards him. Kumar has risk factors for ______.

Liam and Jimmy are on the soccer team together. They are friends but really don’t hang out that much. Liam makes sure that his grades are the best they can be while Jimmy doesn’t really care about his grades. The other students have put Liam and Jimmy in the same crowd at school. Liam and Jimmy would most likely be put into the ______.

Which scenario demonstrates insecure resistant attachment?

Which can be expected for grades during school transitions for adolescents?

Which individual is demonstrating a common characteristic of autism spectrum disorders?

Which is defined by being chronic and a marked loss of pleasure in all or almost all activities every day or most of the days in a 2-week period along with four other symptoms, such as feelings of worthlessness, over the same time period as determined in the DSM-V?

What impact does emotional autonomy have on peer influence in adolescents?

What is the impact of school in an adolescent’s development of resiliency?