Suppose that you are the youngest child in the family, and you are the last child to leave home. It is likely that your mother
a. feels as happy or even somewhat happier than when children lived at home.
b. experiences less marital satisfaction than when children lived at home.
c. is slightly more depressed than when children lived at home, and this depression is long-lasting.
d. feels as if her major source of identity has been lost.
A
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a. adherence to validated theory. b. success in randomized studies. c. success in genuine, clinical settings. d. the effect after eliminating dropouts.
What did Baltes and Baltes call the capacity of adults to use their intellectual strengths to compensate for declining capacities?
compensatory thinking selective optimization with compensation maturation of compensation optimization of maturation and wisdom
Which brain structure allows you to sleep through the chiming of the grandfather clock in your house?
a) cerebellum b) limbic system c) corpus callosum d) reticular formation
The difficulty you have deciding if the doorbell actually sounded is best explained by
a) Wundt's law. b) absolute thresholds. c) signal detection theory. d) the law of perceptual paradox.