According to Schaie, old age marks a period in which people no longer focus on acquiring knowledge to solve potential problems, but rather focus on acquiring information directed toward issues of personal interest. He calls this stage the
a) responsible stage.
b) executive stage.
c) reintegrative stage.
d) acquisitive stage.
c
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a. blue. b. yellow. c. orange. d. green.
Shawn is more likely to smoke marijuana in situations where he believes it will make him relaxed than in situations where he feels he will make a fool of himself. Shawn's ideas about smoking marijuana reflect his
a. efficacy expectations. b. locus of control. c. self-esteem. d. individualism. e. outcome expectations.
The demonstration in your text that asks you to visualize scenes such as an office, a department store clothing section, a lion, and a microscope often results in more details in the scene of the office or department store than the scene with the lion or microscope. The latter two tend to have fewer details because most individuals from modern society have less knowledge of _____ in those scenes
a. physical regularities b. semantic regularities c. pragnanz d. double dissociation
The probability of a type I error is equal to ____
a. alpha b. 1 - alpha c. 2 alpha d. alpha / statistical power