Your 70-year-old mother, who is in good health, tells you that she gets bored, especially during the long, cold winters. When you suggest that she volunteer, she says, "I don't want to be tied down with any commitments."
What arguments could you make that volunteering is well worth the investment?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
- Psychological benefits include higher life satisfaction, sense of meaning/accomplishment, cognitive stimulation.
- Physical benefits include higher self-perception of health, lower rates of disability and mortality.
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Chapter 8 discusses several studies of marital satisfaction. These studies indicate that
a. young married couples are probably the happiest people in any age group. b. marital satisfaction drops quickly after the newlywed period, but then levels off for the remainder of the marriage. c. women's marital satisfaction reaches a low point when their children leave home. d. intimacy, physical affection, and shared activities all increase over the first 20 years of marriage.
The text defines stress as:
a. the negative emotional responses people experience when they are threatened b. the increased arousal people experience when they are threatened c. any environmental event that produces elevated heart rate and blood pressure d. the physical and psychological reactions people have to demanding situations
Imagine that the parts of the brain can speak. As you look at a black widow spider coming towards you, which part would say, "It's my responsibility to determine if a stimulus has positive or negative emotional significance"?
a. Broca's area c. thalamus b. hippocampus d. amygdala
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false