A recent study examined the effects of caregiving status (former, current, or bereaved) on the development of physical morbidity among long-term cancer caregivers. Family caregivers were studied at two and five years after the patients' cancer diagnosis. This is an example of a ______ study.
A. incidence rate
B. retrospective
C. longitudinal
D. cross-sectional
Answer: C
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A condition occurring mostly in old age that is characterized by increasingly severe memory loss, as well as confusion, depression, and disordered thinking is known as which of the following?
a. Source amnesia b. Retrograde amnesia c. Cotard's syndrome d. Alzheimer's disease
The use of labels that rely on the medical model
a. encourages people to seek medical treatment. b. may keep people from taking responsibility for their life. c. gives people the impression that medication will cure any condition. d. implies that the individual is to blame for becoming ill.
Discuss possible reasons why sexual activity for men is higher than for women during the years of old age.
What will be an ideal response?
Approximately how many neurons are there in the average infant's brain?
a. 100,000 to 200,000 b. 100 million to 200 million c. 100 billion to 200 billion d. 100 trillion to 200 trillion