The fact that some aspects of intelligence seem to decline while other aspects show increases with age is reflected in which component of the life-span perspective?
a. plasticity
b. multidirectionality
c. interindividual variability
d. intraindividual consistency
ANSWER: b
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(a) you. (b) the Pope. (c) your family. (d) the village elders.
According to this perspective, the majority of new jobs created in the United States are in low wage, few benefit, and poor hour service sector jobs.
a. Functionalism b. Conflict c. Symbolic Interaction d. All of the above
Should older perpetrators of crimes be treated differently from others because of their age? Is it important to incarcerate an 80-year-old who has committed a serious crime, or should he or she experience a different type of punishment? If we treat an 80-year-old differently, what about a 75-year-old? Or a 65-year-old? Where should the chronologicalcutoff be for a different prison experience?
What will be an ideal response?
Modernization refers to the
A. elimination of old housing and its replacement with modern skyscrapers. B. process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies. C. colonial domination of Third World nations by Western powers. D. process of development that, at this time, has occurred only in core nations such as England, France, Japan, and the U.S.