Negative turning points described by MIDUS participants __________
A) resembled midlife crises
B) usually involved work-related issues
C) generally led to personal growth
D) focused on the physical changes of aging
Answer: C
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Average children are
a. ignored by classmates. b. liked and disliked by some classmates, but not with a high level of intensity. c. liked by many classmates. d. disliked by many classmates.
Suppose a young child is adopted into a caring, mentally healthy family, yet still develops antisocial personality disorder. Based on your understanding of the risk factors for ASPD, which of the following most likely explains this outcome?
A. The child may have received too privileged an upbringing, leading to lessened empathy for those less fortunate than him, which increased the risk of developing ASPD. B. The parents may have acted heroically in a dangerous situation; the child, misunderstanding their motives, interpreted this to mean that any risk-taking behavior tends to be rewarded, leading him to do so with increasing frequency. C. The parents may have been seen as too caring during the child's adolescent years, causing him to rebel by acting in what he saw as an opposite fashion. D. The child's biological parents may have had ASPD, and thus he had a genetic disposition towards developing the disorder, which outweighed the pleasant upbringing he experienced.
Which of the following statements is true regarding genetic influences on personal characteristics?
A. Traits that are thought to be heavily influenced by genetics can be modified by physical and social interventions. B. Identical twins share 100% of their genes and are therefore 100% alike with respect to personal characteristics. C. Heart disease has been proven to be caused by environmental factors. D. Monozygotic twins and dizygotic twins are equally similar with respect to genetic inheritance.
__________ and __________ are not as important in job selection, mostly because they vary so much from one job to another
a. Extraversion; openness to experience b. Introversion; neuroticism c. Extraversion; neuroticism d. Introversion; openness to experience