Which of the following statements about attitudes regarding marriage in the United States today is true?
A) A majority of American adults agree that marriage is becoming obsolete.
B) More than half of high-SES emerging adults say they never want to get married.
C) Irrespective of SES and ethnicity, most U.S. 18- to 23-year-olds say they want to marry and have children.
D) Marriage is not a central life goal for more than two-thirds of low-SES emerging adults.
C
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An electrical impulse moves through what area to get from one neuron to another?
a. the neuron bridge b. the neuron cleft c. the synaptic cleft d. the synaptic bridge
Which of the following is an important criticism of the Big Five and other lexical models of personality?
A) It fails to correlate with important real-world behaviors. B) It focuses too little on the conscious processing of information. C) People may not be consciously aware of all aspects of personality. D) People's attitudes are seldom useful as a means for predicting their aggregated behavior.
Which statement is true regarding language development in middle childhood?
A. Experience with language and exposure to complex constructions influence grammatical development. B. Grammar is typically an area of language learned in formal schooling; conversational language is influenced largely by being read to. C. Children in middle childhood are cognitively incapable of understanding similes and metaphors. D. Pragmatics remains the same as children stop tailoring their speech to their audience.