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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Erikson suggested that a child who is able to successfully balance autonomy with shame and doubt will develop a sense of _______________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Olfaction and gustation are considered
a. chemical senses. b. vestibular senses. c. unrelated to each other. d. of little importance for humans.
Humanistic psychology emerged as a reaction against __________
a) structuralism and functionalism. b) behaviorism and psychoanalysis. c) cognitive psychology and structuralism. d) Gestalt psychology and psychoanalysis.
To stimulate an NMDA receptor, you must stimulate it strongly enough to remove a magnesium ion blocking the channel.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)