The hydraulic model of peer influence assumes that
A) adolescents want to be accepted as adults, so they will reject peer pressure to model their behavior after their parents.
B) as adolescents get older, peers have an increasing influence on their behavior.
C) there is a fixed amount of influence, so increases in peer influence necessarily means that there will be a decrease in parental influence.
D) peers are the primary influence on adolescent's behavior, and the contribution of parents is minor.

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The hydraulic model of peer influence suggests that there is a fixed amount of influence to go around; thus, if peer influence increases, parental influence must decrease, and vice versa. This model views influence as a zero-sum game between different sources of influence.

The Hydraulic Model of Peer Influence Assumes That