Loneliness rises during early adulthood because
A) young adults are not exposed to as many new people as they were in adolescence.
B) young adults expect more from their intimate ties. .
C) young people's friendships are not as gratifying as those in later life.
D) it is the period of life in which people are the most socially unresponsive and insensitive.
B
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On average, how does age relate to job satisfaction? a. Older workers tend to report the highest job satisfaction
b. Young workers tend to report the highest job satisfaction. c. Middle-aged workers tend to report the highest job satisfaction. d. All ages report about equal job satisfaction.
According to prototype theory, "being typical" for a category and "being a member of the category" should go together; if one is true, the other is true. In light of other things you know, which of the following is NOT a problem for this broad claim?
A) Whales are more typical of fish than sea lampreys are, but whales aren't fish. B) A squashed lemon painted purple isn't at all a typical fruit, but it is a fruit. C) A poodle is a more typical dog than a golden retriever, but both are dogs. D) Abraham Lincoln was a typical American president, but he was a president.
According to your text, the U.S. educational system freqently
a. pressures immigrant children to develop their English skills, and it does not emphasize the value of children retaining their first language. b. values children who retain fluency in a first language such as Vietnamese, Portuguese, or Arabic. c. makes great efforts to encourage simultaneous bilingualism. d. believes that a student's attitude toward people who speak a foreign language is much more important than his or her skill in speaking that language.
Developmentalists study identical twins adopted at birth who are raised in substantially different environments, allowing researchers to draw conclusions about __________.
a) the impact of parenting techniques of each adoptive family b) the relative contributions of genetics and environment c) the impact of socioeconomic status of each adoptive family d) the impact of adoptive parents’ education level on adoptive children’s intellect