A study monitoring the stress patterns of people relocated to different nursing homes found that the very old
a. were more likely than younger olds to maintain stable personality traits.
b. were unique—discontinuity and change in coping patterns was the rule.
c. coped most successfully by surrendering to loss of control of themselves.
d. no longer viewed issues of death and the finality of their lives as important.
ANSWER: b
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What will be an ideal response?
If you lived in a society with a traditional caste system, you would expect your marriage to be
a. polygamous. b. exogamous. c. based on romantic love. d. endogamous.
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Kim is an Asian woman in her thirties. She enjoys shopping and going to her local mall on the weekends when she's not working. Kim lives in a mid-sized community where there is limited ethnic diversity. Her husband is white and so are her friends. There is one particular store, where Kim and her friends shop, in which many of the clerks are white women in their late fifties to early sixties. They are very friendly and attentive to Kim's friends, but not to Kim. Kim will sometimes have to wait for a few minutes at the checkout before receiving assistance. What is Kim experiencing?
A. discrimination B. subtle manipulation C. prejudice D. institutional discrimination