Which best describes achievement motivation during adulthood?
a. Achievement motivation is steady from middle to old age for both females and males.
b. The loss of motivation is an inevitable part of the aging process (especially in those over age 70).
c. For both females and males, achievement motivation increases steadily from young adulthood to middle age.
d. Achievement motivation is more affected by work and family context than by the process of aging.
d
You might also like to view...
Which outcome may soon be considered an incentive to hiring the elderly?
A. Baby boomers are retiring, so the size of the workforce is shrinking. B. Attractive government tax incentives for hiring the elderly. C. The elderly are increasingly going back to school to acquire additional skills. D. Legal actions and lawsuits for firing the elderly have become routine in the court system.
Define cognitive simplicity and cognitive complexity. Compare the characteristics of people with different cognitive styles
What will be an ideal response?
Research on 16-year-old sexual abstainers, low risk-takers, and high risk-takers found that
a. abstaining was most common in teens with unwed mothers. b. high-risk teens looked more mature at earlier ages than teens from the other groups. c. low-risk teens were most likely to be involved in romantic relationships. d. there was no relationship between behaviors exhibited between ages 9 and 12 and later sexual activity.
As a result of stimulus discrimination training, the presence of the discriminative stimulus:
a. signals that the behavior will be reinforced b. signals that the behavior will not be reinforced c. causes an alternative behavior to occur d. A and C