Explain why the "midlife crisis" is a myth.
What will be an ideal response?
- For most people, passage into middle age is relatively tranquil and particularly rewarding, for a variety of reasons.
- Children have left home, allowing more time for parents to rekindle intimacy.
- Careers are established, and people feel content to concentrate on the present rather than the future.
- Only when turmoil is evident in a middle-aged person's life do they tend to notice it and give it more weight than necessary.
- Vivid examples are also more memorable than mundane ones. A 40-year-old happily puttering in the garden doesn't stick out as much as a 40-year-old dating an 18-year-old and driving a flashy sports car. The salience of extreme examples makes them seem more typical than they actually are.
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Longitudinal studies in Belgium (Luyckx et al., 2006, 2008; Verschueren et al., 2017) found that cycling among identity statutes without making a commitment led to __________.
A. higher self-esteem B. exploration in depth C. identification with commitment D. lower self-esteem
Day care has been shown to be extremely harmful to attachment relationships
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A researcher shows 3-year-old Emilia two small boxes—a familiar crayon box and a plain, unmarked box. When the researcher asks Emilia to pick the box with the crayons in it, Emilia picks the familiar box. The researcher then shows Emilia that the familiar box is empty and the unmarked box contains crayons. Finally, the researcher introduces Emilia to a puppet named Betty and asks, “Where do
you think Betty will look for the crayons?” The researcher is testing Emilia’s grasp of __________. A) false beliefs B) conservation C) irreversibility D) class inclusion
What type of stimuli did Hermann Ebbinghaus use in his memory research?
a) words b) numbers c) pictures d) nonsense syllables