If cancer, stroke, and heart attacks were eliminated, demographers estimate that the life of an average individual, age 70,would be extended approximately how long?

A. 10 years
B. 7 years
C. 3 years
D. 15 years


Answer: B

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According to research cited in the text, people who attempt to control their own environment and make their own choices regarding their impending death:

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Sue has devoted so much time to her engineering career that at age 70 she has never been free to pursue many of her personal interests. Sue's feelings of missed opportunities suggest a sense of

a. generativity. b. alienation. c. stagnation. d. despair.

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The motor theory of speech perception is an example of a ______ theory of speech perception.

A. general-mechanism B. voicing-mechanism C. special-mechanism D. phoneme-mechanism

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