Which statement describes age-related change in cognitive capacity?
A. Fluid intelligence continues to improve throughout adulthood.
B. Crystallized intelligence increases steadily over the adult years and declines modestly in late adulthood.
C. Adults show more difficulties with selective attention than with divided attention and inhibition.
D. The capacity of working memory continues to improve throughout middle adulthood.
Answer: B
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a. schadenfreude b. survivor guilt c. shame d. catharsis
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a. ?psychoanalytic theory
b. ?behavioral
c. ?functional
d. ?structural
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a. ?the independent variable b. ?the dependent variable c. ?a confound d. ?the experimental group
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. The valence-centred approach suggests odors first elicit emotions that subsequently aid in the identification of the odorous object. 2. Recent research has been more supportive of the object-centred approach to olfaction than the valence-centred approach. 3. The fact that people rate the same odor as more pleasant if it is paired with an appealing verbal label illustrates the bottom-up approach to the perception of odor. 4. Newborns can distinguish between breast milk from their mother relative to another mother, but mothers cannot distinguish the scent of their baby from another baby. 5. Recent research has demonstrated that homosexuals are more sensitive to pheromones than are heterosexuals.