Most youth tend to pick friends who are like themselves. the term that describes this process is
a. homophily
b. heliophobia
c. hobophobily
d. hormephobia

a. homophily is the correct answer.

Explanation:

homophily is the tendency for the people that are attracted and interact with an individual who is similar and related to them in characteristics such as values, attitudes, socioeconomic state, education.People in homophilic bonds share similar characteristics that make interaction and relationship development easier.Homophily usually arises if an individual resides nearby and also have alike characteristics and it also causes because of family ties, school activity.