List the physical changes that take place during middle adulthood.
What will be an ideal response?
Physical changes that take place during middle adulthood are:
(a) Accommodation of the eye declines; (b) viewing close objects becomes difficult; (c) the eyes' blood supply diminishes; (d) the size of the visual field diminishes; (e) the retina becomes less sensitive to low levels of illumination; (f) hearing declines, with sensitivity to high pitches declining first; (g) individuals become shorter; (h) the skin wrinkles and sags; (i) teeth become yellow; (j) individuals lose strength; (k) there is progressive bone loss; and (l) individuals gain weight.
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a. denial b. bargaining c. anger d. depression
Among women who have had female circumcision, many:
A. stop menstruating B. have left their communities in shame C. have reported a reduction in pain during childbirth D. suffer from anxiety and depression
The process in which certain functions are located more in one hemisphere of the brain than the other is known as
a. plasticity. c. lateralization. b. hemispherical shift. d. reticular formation.
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a. Children fight over their mother's attention when she returns. b. Siblings do not affect children's reactions in the Strange Situation. c. Children are not as distressed when their mother leaves. d. The reaction depends on whether the sibling is the same gender as the child.