Question

dealing with peer pressure
what role does impulse control play when faced with peer pressure to act impulsively?
○ it helps you avoid making any decisions.
○ it encourages you to follow peer pressure.
○ it allows you to pause and resist immediate desires.
○ it makes you disregard long - term goals.

Explanation:

• Analyze each option:
• "It helps you avoid making any decisions." is incorrect as impulse control is about making thoughtful decisions, not avoiding all decisions.
• "It encourages you to follow peer pressure." is wrong because impulse control should help resist peer pressure to act impulsively.
• "It allows you to pause and resist immediate desires." matches the definition of impulse control, which is the ability to delay or resist an impulse.
• "It makes you disregard long - term goals." is incorrect as impulse control is related to considering long - term goals and not acting on immediate impulses.

Answer:

C. It allows you to pause and resist immediate desires.