Briefly explain the consequences of grief and bereavement
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Some studies find that for widowed people, the risk of death is as much as seven times higher in the year following the death of a spouse. Bereavement is more likely to produce depression or other negative consequences if the person who has lost a loved one is already insecure, anxious, or fearful and is, therefore, less able to cope effectively. People whose relationships were marked by ambivalence before death are more likely to suffer poor post-death outcomes than those who were secure in their relationships. Those who were highly dependent on the person who died are apt to suffer more after their death. Bereaved people who lack social support are more likely to experience feelings of loneliness and are more at risk. People who are unable to make sense of the death show less overall adjustment. Finally, people who lose loved ones suddenly are less able to cope than those who anticipate the death.
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How is busyness related to academic performance in adolescence?
A. Adolescents who are involved in just a few activities tend to be more academically successful. B. Involvement in three activities seems to be the optimal level for predicting greater academic success. C. Busier adolescents, committed to many tasks, tend to be more academically successful. D. How busy an adolescent is tends to be unrelated to how academically successful that person is.
Which of the following is considered one of Piaget's contributions to understanding infant cognition?
a. Infants are able to create and manipulate symbols. b. For infants, most thinking is unconscious. c. Infants have the same capacity for abstract reasoning as adolescents. d. Infants establish logical connections.
Two different clinicians diagnosed the same client with two different personality disorders. How does Reed (2010) explain this? a. The clinicians have different training
b. The symptoms probably overlap in both disorders. c. The client behaved differently with each clinician. d. The clinicians have different levels of experience.
The relatively high rate of religiosity among African American adolescents means that they:
a. are more likely to engage in premarital sex. b. are less likely to use alcohol and drugs. c. are more likely to engage in delinquent behavior. d. are less likely to graduate high school