Regarding the relationship of age and gender to happiness, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Life satisfaction and happiness generally do not decline with age.
b. When declines in happiness do occur, older people today seem better able to cope with them.
c. Overall, women tend to be happier than men do.
d. Women have a tendency to experience higher emotional highs and lower lows than men do.
C
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a. sex b. religiosity c. education d. wine consumption
Evidence that sleep functions to repair and restore the brain and body comes from the research find that vigorous activity, especially late in the day, causes an increase in:
a. fast-wave sleep b. slow-wave sleep c. the appearance of sleep spindles d. the appearance of K complexes
The nervous system encodes greater intensity of a given stimulus by a. forming action potentials with higher peaks
b. forming action potentials that last a longer time. c. increasing the rate of firing. d. reducing the number of neurons that are responding.
The flight-or-fight response is mobilized by the
A) central nervous system. B) somatic nervous system. C) sympathetic nervous system. D) parasympathetic nervous system.