According to Erikson's psychosocial theory of development, which of the following is true of people who are unable to have children?

A) They have high self-esteem.
B) They have no alternative but to experience stagnation.
C) They need to find substitutes to satisfy their need for generativity.
D) They are better off psychologically than those who have more than two children.


C

Psychology

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A. trust B. mistrust C. autonomy D. initiative

Psychology

According to the research on divided-attention tasks, when people divide their attention between two stimuli,

a. they usually perform very accurately. b. they report that their performance accuracy suffers, but in reality, they simply perform the tasks more slowly. c. they typically make more errors. d. their performance shifts from serial processing to parallel processing.

Psychology

Experiments with speech spectograms show that

a.speech is continuous between words. b.speech shows invariant features. c.all languages use all phonemes. d.there is a one to one mapping between phonemes and segments of the speech stream.

Psychology

Summarize Baumrind's three styles of parenting. What does research show about the outcomes of children reared with the different styles? What style would you use with your children and why?

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology