Which of the following is true of altruism and volunteering in adults?
Younger adults' strategies are more likely to be aimed at contributing to the public good, while older adults' strategies are more likely to focus on optimizing personal financial gain.
Younger adults are more likely than any other group to volunteer more than 100 hours annually.
A common perception is that older adults need to be given help rather than give help themselves.
Older adults who engage in organizational volunteering have a higher mortality risk than those who do not.
A common perception is that older adults need to be given help rather than give help themselves.
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Which of the following ordered relation effects reflects people being slower at judging the relationship of 2 memory traces the more similar their content is to one another?
a) semantic congruity effects b) serial position effects c) semantic distance effects d) semantic satiation effects
The most effective drug treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder involves the administration of
a. fluvoxamine and clomipramine. b. serotonin antagonists. c. benzodiazepines. d. GABA antagonists e. alcohol.
In the context of the psychoanalytic perspective on human development, identify a true statement about Sigmund Freud.
A. He stated that a response to a stimulus is evoked after repeated association with a stimulus that normally elicits the response. B. He proposed that humans were born with a series of innate, biologically based drives such as hunger, sex, and aggression. C. He devised experiments that were the foundation for classical conditioning. D. He believed in active development and quantitative change.
Adolescents use their reasoning skills ____, dismissing findings that threaten their beliefs and admitting findings compatible with their beliefs
a. independently b. selectively c. conservatively d. liberally