Which of the following statements is TRUE about motor development during middle and late childhood?
A. Elementary school children become more fatigued by running than by long periods of sitting.
B. Development during middle and late childhood does not involve fine motor development.
C. Girls usually outperform boys in gross motor skills.
D. Girls usually outperform boys in fine motor skills.
Answer: D
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a. only about 10% of Canadian women over the age of 65 are in the low-income bracket. b. in the United States, women over the age of 55 have an average annual income that is about 90% of the average annual income that men have. c. Latina and African American women are just as likely as European American women to have a pension plan. d. older women in the United States have lower incomes than older men, but women and men actually have comparable incomes, once you take health-care expenses into account.
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a. hypnosis to uncover the unconscious conflicts that are responsible for the symptoms b. stress-coping mechanisms, self-reinforcement, and teaching significant others to respond positively to the "normal" behavior of the patient c. antianxiety and antidepressant medication d. systematic desensitization, flooding, modeling, and virtual reality
Which of the following is generally more important than the specific technique a therapist uses in determining the success of psychotherapy?
a. how long the therapy lasts b. the insight that the therapy provides the client c. the bond between the therapist and the client d. whether the therapist and client are matched by gender
According to the article Over the Hill about the Betula study of adult cognition, in Schaie's Most Efficient Design, the best place to identify cohort effects is in:
(a) the cross-sectional analysis (b) the time-lag analysis (c) a comparison of the experimental and the control groups (d) the differences between different age groups in the first year of the study