Charlie and his best friend, Max, visit each other, watch their favorite college team play football, and confide in each other. Which of the following functions of friendship do Charlie and Max provide for each other?
A) intimacy and companionship
B) a link to the larger community
C) protection from the psychological consequences of loss
D) a shield against negative judgments stemming from stereotypes of aging
A
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A. sympathetic division and parasympathetic division B. somatic nervous system and central nervous system C. autonomic nervous system and central nervous system D. peripheral nervous system and central nervous system
__________ psychology addresses the full spectrum of human behavior, both the commonplace and the exceptional:
a. Popular b. Scientific c. Medical d. Maladaptive
Data suggest that with increasing age, both sexes display ______
a. less self-centeredness and poorer coping skills b. less self-centeredness and better coping skills c. more self-centeredness and better coping skills d. more self-centeredness and poorer coping skills
Information-processing theorists believe that the development of thinking is a result of
a. improvements in mental hardware only that occur with age. b. improvements in mental software only that occur with age. c. improvements in both mental hardware and software that occur with age. d. more sophisticated theories that children create.