Harry, a 77-year-old, is retired and interacts only with his wife of 40 years and his grown children. He spends much of his time at the park or working on his model railroads. According to Henry and Cumming (1961), Harry is
A. retiring.
B. disengaging.
C. transitioning.
D. developing.
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
According to the sexual response cycle proposed by Masters and Johnson, when do men and women experience the four phases of physiological arousal?
a. While masturbating b. During oral sex c. Only for vaginal or anal intercourse d. During all sexual behaviors that progress from excitement to orgasm
Dyslexia refers to ______.
A. word blindness B. left-handed writing C. impairments in writing D. impairments in reading
Suppose you take a piece of candy out of a jar, look to determine its color, then put it back into the jar before you randomly select the next piece of candy. This type of sampling is called
a. an independent event. c. a dependent event. b. sampling with replacement. d. sampling without replacement.
Although the range is a good measure of variation in a data set because it gives us information about the distance between the most extreme values, it does have one peculiar drawback. What is that concern?
a. The range cannot be used on data sets that do not have at least ten different values. b. The range is easily distorted by extreme values in a data set. c. The range is distorted when a data set has the same value that appears more than once. d. The range is changed when the standard deviation of the data set turns negative.