A group of people in their early 50s are meeting with a developmental specialist to discuss lifestyle changes in their lives
The topic of personality stability becomes the major topic of discussion, and the group asks the specialist to summarize the area of stability versus change in personality. What could the specialist tell the group?
a) Many middle-aged adults tend to feel young and that in terms of basic personality traits, they perceive important similarities between their present selves and their younger selves.
b) Personality does changes from adolescence to adulthood and some of these changes can be quite dramatic, leaving adults to struggle through midlife crises.
c) People's basic personality traits do not appear to show continuity.
d) Personality will change and could become unstable due to aging and illness.
a
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a. narcolepsy. b. sleep apnea. c. somnambulism. d. insomnia.
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a. guilty of murder. b. not guilty by reason of insanity. c. not guilty by reason of diminished responsibility. d. guilty under exceptional circumstances.
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a. maze learning b. preparedness c. critical periods d. contingency traps
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A. compute a test statistic before making a decision B. make decisions about the null hypothesis C. prove that their hypothesis is correct D. know the likelihood of obtaining a sample mean if the null hypothesis were true