Which statement is true about widowhood?
A) In the United States, 34 percent of men age 65 and older are widowed, compared with just 12 percent of women.
B) Widowhood rates have risen over the past several decades as divorce among aging adults rose.
C) Ethnic minorities with high rates of poverty and chronic disease are more likely to be widowed.
D) Aging adults have more lasting problems than younger individuals who are widowed.
Answer: C
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What does global research reveal about the peak age for the emergence of sex differences in unipolar depression?
A. Sex differences in depression emerge at age seventeen and peak in young adulthood. B. Sex differences in depression emerge at age twelve and peak during middle adolescence. C. There are relatively minor sex differences in unipolar depression between adolescent boys and girls. D. Compared to adolescent girls, adolescent boys tend to have higher rates of unipolar depression.
According to Pavlov, generalization has:
A. little impact on conditioned response B. little effect on emotional responses C. adaptive value D. been discarded as a reliable phenomenon
Research studies have shown that combining exposure and response prevention with medication when treating patients with OCD a. is better than drug treatment alone
b. is better than exposure and response prevention alone. c. causes patients to discontinue treatment. d. does not produce any additional therapeutic advantage.
Gilligan (1982) argued that Kohlberg's theory of moral development is gender biased. She asserts that males use a justice orientation, whereas females use a
A) verbal reasoning. B) care ethic. C) community view. D) family perspective.