According to Erikson, the basis for personality growth is
a. achieving a balance of forces.
b. blending among traits.
c. resolving struggles between tendencies.
d. achieving formal operations.
ANSWER: c
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a. Both allow a person to have more than one spouse in their entire lifetime. b. Both are legal in the United States. c. Both deny women the right to remarry, while men are allowed to remarry. d. Both allow a person to have multiple spouses at the same time.
In a recent study of women arrested for violent crimes in two major cities, over _____ had been using at least one or more illicit drugs before their arrest
a. 10 percent b. 75 percent c. 97 percent d. 50 percent
Under the traditional gender roles approach, men were considered to fulfill the ________ role outside the family
a. instrumental b. expressive c. nurturing d. caring
A key premise of the life-span perspective is that
A. biological changes are the most important. B. events that happen in old age are more important than earlier experiences. C. social changes are the most important. D. aging is a lifelong process that begins at conception and ends at death.