Your friends are worried because their newborn sleeps 16 or 17 hours a day. What would you tell them?
a. That their newborn probably has a sleeping disorder.
b. They should try to wake up their neonate every 8 hours.
c. The average neonates sleep about this amount of time.
d. Sleeping this long is highly associated with laziness during adolescence.
C. There is great variation among newborns, but 16 to 17 hours per day is normal.
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a. the ego depletion model of self-regulation. b. the pessimistic explanatory style. c. the gluttony premise. d. the self-defeating model.
What is the "stage of life phenomenon" in early adulthood?
What will be an ideal response?
In research using questionnaires:
a. the interviewer must ask leading questions b. maintaining the participants' attention is never a problem c. the answers are never open-ended d. the results will be meaningless unless the sample of respondents is representative of the population of interest e. both b and c
Which statement describes culture and depression?
A. In all cultures studied, females are twice as likely as males to report feelings of depression. B. Longitudinal effects of stressful life events on depression are buffered by parent-child closeness. C. In Western cultures, adolescent males and females demonstrate similar rates in depression but by adulthood, the trend reverses. D. Good parental acculturation is linked with adolescent depression when their relationships are positive.