Imagine that there is an equal level of stress in Gerald's and Mary's lives. Ruling out biological differences, we might expect Mary to be more prone to depression if she ____
a. is employed outside the home and has no children
b. maintains a nontraditional gender role
c. sees herself as controlling her life situations
d. tends to ruminate and amplify her depressive moods
d
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Which reason correctly explains why marriages unravel in Western society?
A. People are less concerned for their own personal happiness. B. There are few legal and financial impediments to getting a divorce. C. Women have fewer economic opportunities available to them. D. The social services benefits of marriage, such as tax advantages, no longer exist.
Self-preservation as a major human motive was expressed by Freud in his notion of the ____
a. ?Instinkts b. ?Triebs c. Einfall d. libido e. ?Uber-Ich
Harriet is working on building a sense of independence and self-control. Generalizing from the theory of psychosocial development, Harriet is probably in which age group?
a. infancy b. toddlerhood c. preschool d. middle childhood e. adolescence
What can we conclude about the reasons for long-term memory problems in elderly individuals?
a. Almost all of the deficits can be traced to factors other than a person's age. b. Elderly individuals consistently use less effective memory strategies. c. Most of the decline can be traced to deficits in language-processing skills. d. Some of the decline can be traced to changes in the brain.