If you were going to advise a middle-aged adult on how to best maintain and improve her cognitive abilities into older adulthood, your best advice would be to tell her to:
a. quit working, relax, and watch more TV
b. stay intellectually engaged in complex tasks
c. create a stable routine, in which the tasks she does are done repeatedly so forgetting does not occur
d. make sure she gets enough sleep each night so her brain has a chance to store the new information she learned that day
b
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Which term refers to an overall developmental score that relates to performance in the domains of motor skills, language use, adaptive behavior, and personal-social behavior?
A. Gesell index (GI) B. Bayley indicator (BI) C. intelligence product (IP) D. developmental quotient (DQ)
According to Maslow, a peak experience allows a person to experience a temporary moment of
a. ultimate fixation. b. the collective unconscious. c. self-actualization. d. organismic valuing.
You hear a motivational speaker who suggests that people need to modify their environment to change behavior. You detect a hint of the ____ perspective in the speech
a. cognitive c. psychoanalytic b. behavioral d. cross-cultural
Kumar is walking down the street when a stranger accidentally bumps into him as he passes. Kumar is least likely to respond aggressively if he
A. had just stopped jogging. B. is frustrated about a problem at work. C. lives in a collectivist culture. D. has recently suffered damage to his limbic system.