According to socioemotional selectivity theory, younger adults are generally oriented towards acquiring information useful to them in the future, and older adults are generally oriented towards information that:
A) increases their understanding of the past.
B) gives them satisfaction in the present.
C) is relevant to their work.
D) validates the role they previously played in society.
B) gives them satisfaction in the present.
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Which instruction might cause you to experience something similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder? a. "Imagine being attacked by a bear."
b. "Describe what a bear looks like, in detail.". c. "Pretend you are a bear.". d. "Try not to think about a bear.".
Comfort food __________.
A. does nothing physiologically; any effects are due to expectation B. may help reduce activation in the stress response system C. changes the hormonal balance of the body and makes people want to eat more D. affects the brain in such a way as to make it unable to tell when the body is full
Regarding the human sexual response, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. During masturbation, 70 percent of females reach orgasm in four minutes or less, which is comparable to male response times. b. During sexual intercourse, women typically go through the sexual phases more slowly than do men. c. Only five percent of males are capable of multiple orgasm and are limited to only a second one following an unavoidable refractory period. d. Twenty percent of all women have had multiple orgasms with only about two percent regularly having multiple orgasms.
People and lower animals have learned to control autonomic responses in order to attain reinforcement with the use of
a. programmed learning. c. token economies. b. socialization. d. biofeedback training.