Some researchers study the influence of age on the human body, others are more interested in
topics such as health and disease. How do these researchers differ in terms of their recruitment
strategies and research questions?
What will be an ideal response?
Researchers that are interested in connecting an aging process to changes in the body
usually want adults that are illness free and possess healthy lifestyles. This strategy
allows the researcher to better assess the impact of "aging alone" on our body and major
organ systems. In contrast, researchers that study health and disease often recruit a
wide variety of adults. In that manner, they can compare the lifestyles of adults who are
healthy or not, or have developed certain diseases. One issue that complicates this area
is risk comorbidity, or the tendency for some adults to engage in more than one risky
lifestyle choice (e.g., smoking and drinking).
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Which statement best summarizes the pattern of IQ-score change in childhood?
a. Overall age group stability but large individual variation b. Significant rise in average group IQ score from early to late childhood c. Significant drop in average group IQ score from early to late childhood d. Overall individual stability but large age-group variation
People can be "word smart," "number smart," "picture smart," musically smart," "body smart," "self smart," "people smart," and/or "nature smart," according to
a. Alfred Binet. b. Howard Gardner. c. David Wechsler. d. Lewis Terman.
A mother tells her toddler that it's okay to scream and shout at a sporting event but not in church. These are
a. etiquetted codifiers. b. asocial phases of attachment. c. preadapted characteristics. d. display rules.
Pam's strategy for mastering her new phone number was to group the numbers into meaningful units based on historic dates. This is an example of__________
a) displacement. b) chunking. c) rehearsal. d) elaborative rehearsal.