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Conflicts between parents and adolescents are: A) Higher during adolescence than during childhood. B) Lower during adolescence than during childhood. C) Especially intense between fathers and sons. D) None of the above.

Which of the following is NOT true of parent-adolescent conflict? A) The increased size and strength of adolescents make it more difficult for parents to impose their authority on them than it was when they were younger. B) Adolescents' increased capacity for abstract thinking makes them more capable of presenting an argument in the face of parental directives. C) A mismatch between parent and adolescent expectations of autonomy for the adolescent is not likely to be one of the sources of parent-adolescent conflict. D) Parents and adolescents have disagreements focused on the adolescents' choice of friends.