For some older adults, a consequence of reaching a sense of extinction in later life is
a. transcendence.
b. building new sources of social support. c. suicide.
d. trusting in interdependence.
c
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If you use additive color mixing to combine all the colors of the spectrum, what will result?
a) white light b) a red-green mix c) a psychedelic black light d) an odd combination that has no name
When Veda returned home after the worst typhoon in twenty years, her entire family was dead and there was nothing left of her village. Veda wandered off and forgot her name, and everything about her previous life. This is an example of a _____.
A. dissociate identity disorder B. nervous breakdown C. dissociative amnesia D. dissociative fugue
Why is the combination of alcohol and cocaine more dangerous than either of the two drugs used alone?
a) Cocaethylene has a longer duration and greater excitatory effect on blood pressure and heart rate than that is produced by cocaine alone b) Cocaethylene is metabolized into a toxic byproduct that has been shown to cause cancer in rats. c) Cocaethylene causes paranoid schizophrenia among chronic users. d) Cocaethylene causes more liver and brain tissue damage than alcohol alone.
On easy memory tasks, older people perform:
a) better or worse than the young, depending on the test. b) better than the young. c) far worse than the young. d) almost as well as the young.