Sarah lives in a wealthy neighborhood and attends a prestigious university nearby. She has grown up having access to a number of social and educational opportunities. Her health care providers are one of the best around and she has not had any serious medical concerns. Sarah is content with her life circumstances, she exhibits a good ______.
A. distress threshold
B. emerging adulthood
C. quality of life
D. homotypic stability
Ans: C
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In a study by DeLoache and colleagues (1985), what behaviors did children exhibit that indicated they were trying to remember where Big Bird was hidden?
a. They searched for the toy. b. They asked to see the toy. c. They pointed or looked at the hiding place. d. They did not show any behaviors that indicated that they were trying to remember the hiding place.
Insurance carriers may reimburse only for ____; in other words, they may deny coverage for unproven treatments
a. inpatient treatment b. outpatient treatment c. substance abuse treatment d. evidence-based treatment
Louis Terman, one of the original developers of the Stanford-Binet test, began a study in the 1920s of 1,500 children with exceptionally high IQ scores and as compared to the control group, these"Termites," as they were referred to, ____
a. had a great deal of personal distress and were often depressed, anxious, and manifested high hostility towards others b. had a great deal of educational and occupational success, with dozens of patents and hundreds of books c. had a higher rate of alcoholism, divorce, and mental disorders d. were similar in few ways, illustrating that IQ has very little predictive value
In a ________, the researcher combines the actual results of a number of studies; the analysis consists of a set of statistical procedures that employ effect sizes to compare a given finding across many different studies.
A. literature review B. combined assignment C. meta-analysis D. field experiment