According to fulfillment theory, psychological growth is accomplished through what mechanism?
a. Family trajectory convergence
b. Avoidance of risk to promote resiliency c. Setting goals and achieving them
d. Cohort involvement
c
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Brian and Tamara are concerned because their 12-month-old son has yet to speak his first word. As an expert in child development, what do you tell them? a. They should be concerned as most children speak their first word before their first birthday. b. They shouldn't be concerned because boys develop speech much later than girls. c. They shouldn't be concerned because anywhere between 8 to
18 months of age is considered normal forspeaking first words. d. Children ordinarily speak using words by 6 months of age, so they should have their son tested for hearingproblems.
Which of the following students provides the best definition of the term "inference," in connection with the discussion of semantic memory in Chapter 8?
a. Don: "An inference refers to those conclusions and logical implications that people make, even when they were never directly stated in the original stimulus." b. Javier: "An inference is the grammatical structure of a sentence, in both written and spoken language." c. Polina: "An inference occurs when one speaker stops talking, and another begins to speak." d. Lindsey: "An inference is basically an alternate term for the word validity."
Scores on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale are expressed in
a. ergs. b. life change units. c. hours of stressful experience. d. days of stressful experience.
Which of the following best describes the lifecycle of marital satisfaction?
a. high satisfaction in the first year of marriage, reaching a low point while caring for young children and remaining low until the children enter emerging adulthood, and a rebound of satisfaction at midlife and beyond b. highest satisfaction in the first few years of marriage, lower satisfaction while children are in emerging adulthood and young adulthood, and even lower satisfaction for midlife and beyond c. low satisfaction for the first few years of marriage, higher satisfaction while children are in emerging adulthood and young adulthood, and the highest satisfaction for midlife and beyond d. high satisfaction for the first few years of marriage, increasing satisfaction while children are in emerging adulthood and young adulthood, then plummeting to all-time low satisfaction for midlife and beyond