Gerta's health is declining. Her son Don asks her to move in with him, but Gerta refuses. __________ theory helps explain Gerta's desire to live where many of her memorable life events took place
A) Disengagement
B) Activity
C) Continuity
D) Socioemotional selectivity
C
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a. low in general mental ability but high in emotional intelligence. b. the only person in the group who belongs to a different racial group than all the others. c. a brunette. d. a male in an otherwise all female group. e. somewhat older than the other group members.
Mary Rothbart considers the traits of focused attention, inhibitory control, low-intensity pleasure, and perceptual sensitivity to be aspects of the temperamental dimension she calls _______.
a. energy b. competitiveness c. effortful control d. inhibition
Which statement is TRUE with regard to the developmental theories of Piaget and Vygotsky??
a. ?Both Piaget and Vygotsky believed that cognitive development is largely due to nature. b. ?Vygotsky believed that cognitive development is primarily due to nature, whereas Piaget believed that cognitive development is most influenced by culture. c. ?Both Piaget and Vygotsky believed that cognitive development is driven largely by social influences. d. ?Piaget believed that cognitive development is most influenced by biological forces, whereas Vygotsky believed that social interactions are the primary influence on cognitive development.
A scale of measurement in which, in addition to order and equal units of measurement, there is an absolute zero that indicates an absence of the variable being measured is a _____ scale
a. nominal b. ordinal c. interval d. ratio