When Juanita reaches 35, her parents and friends pressure her to have a baby, saying it is time for her to become a mother. This situation is an example of
A. biological clock.
B. role transitions.
C. social clock.
D. aging transitions.
Answer: C
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a. The obsessions develop in response to the compulsions. b. The person engages in compulsions, which increases anxiety. c. The person's sleep is disrupted by nightmares. d. The person tries to ignore, suppress, or neutralize the unwanted thoughts or impulses.
You are trying to retain—in your working memory—a mental picture of a stranger's face. According to Baddeley, you are using your
a. visuospatial sketch pad. b. episodic buffer c. phonological loop. d. central executive.
What additional information is obtained by measuring on an interval scale as compared to an ordinal scale?
a. whether the measurements are the same or different b. the direction of the differences c. the size of the differences d. which measure is the most accurate
Using picture series, Goswami and Brown showed that analogical reasoning based on relational similarity emerges at least by the age of
a. birth. b. one year. c. three years. d. four years.