Which of the following is a factor because of which the number of residents in institutions is projected to rise sharply?
A. Increase in the number of family caregivers
B. Increase in the number of extended families
C. Continuation of current nursing home usage rates
D. Decrease in the percentage of older adults from the baby boom generation
Answer: C
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a. Overgeneralization c. All-or-nothing thinking b. Magnification or minimization d. Jumping to conclusions
Two-year-old Rose wants two hamburgers just like her big brother, but you know that would be too much for her. You decide to cut her hamburger in two. What is she likely to say?
a) "Now I have two." b) "Hamburgers are good for me." c) "What happened to the other hamburgers?" d) "Listen, I can count to two; where is the other hamburger?"
According to the Lazarus theory __________
a) different patterns of arousal in the autonomic nervous system produce the different emotions people feel. b) people are not able to distinguish one emotion from another. c) a true emotion can occur only if a person is physically aroused and can find some reason for it. d) cognitive appraisal is the first step in an emotional response, and all other aspects of an emotion depend on the cognitive appraisal.
Larry is 10 years old and has a mental age of 5. According to the Stanford-Binet Scale, what is Larry's IQ?
a. 50 b. 100 c. 150 d. 200