A pharmaceutical company runs as ad for a depression medicine. The ad lists symptoms of depression as including "hopelessness," "sadness" and "loneliness.". The ad does not mention "psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day.". It appears the company wants as many people as possible to see themselves as depressed. This strategy represents an example of
a. the medicalization process.
b. the socialization process.
c. internalization.
d. differential association.
a
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a. A person has to be a member of reference group to be influenced by its standards. b. A group to which someone once belonged cannot be a reference group. c. People use the standards of a reference group to evaluate themselves. d. A group to which someone hopes to belong cannot be a reference group.
Some of the services provided by families are such a basic part of our existence that we tend to overlook them
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Selective perception means
a. that to understand aging, we need to select the pertinent facts. b. we see what we expect to see and selectively ignore what we do not expect. c. we all have optical illusions that increase as we age. d. as we age, we tend to select activities that are pleasant and ignore those that are not.
An ongoing group has no defined end point.
a. true b. false