Which of the following statements is true and therefore shows the alienation myth to be just that, a myth?
A) Older adults today are more likely to have grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
B) Larger numbers of older adults lived in multigenerational households in past eras.
C) Older adults today are not likely to have frequent contact with their adult children.
D) Most older adults prefer to live with their children, but the children prefer they live elsewhere.
A
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A unique characteristic of a person not shared with others is a:
a. common trait b. personal disposition c. central trait d. common disposition
A basic error that nearly all psychology students make is to assume that
A) correlation is causation. B) good theories make safe, not risky, predictions. C) research questions or theories must be falsifiable. D) simple theories are preferred to complex ones.
Which statement about Jerome Kagan’s longitudinal research on the stability of temperament is true?
A) The majority of babies in the study were easily upset by novelty. B) Most children’s dispositions became more extreme over time. C) Most children’s dispositions became less extreme over time. D) About 50 to 70 percent of the extreme groups retained their temperamental styles as they grew older.