Discuss briefly how friendships change over the lifespan
What will be an ideal response?
• The size of our friendship network decreases with age. Generally speaking, from middle age on, we begin to target our energies and put more emphasis on a smaller number of closer, more intimate friendships.
• Friends to whom we are closest over time tend to have similar thoughts, engage in similar behaviors, and often reflect a great deal of time and energy put into the relationship.
• Friends who are closer to us in age are likely to experience similar life events at similar points in their lives, increasing perceptions of similarity between same-aged friends.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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a. semantic relationship b. local knowledge theory c. a heuristic framework d. sufficient cause
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