) Suppose a researcher, using a cross-sectional design, finds that the incidence of depression is highest among young adults and lowest among the elderly. Which of the following is a possible valid interpretation of this result?
a. It reflects a basic, shared biological change with age.
b. It reflects a shared, "age-graded" change resulting from common adult tasks and family life cycles.
c. It reflects cohort differences; current young adults experience more stress than the previous generation did.
d. any of the above.
d
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a. promote memory recovery through long-term potentiation. b. promote memory recovery through redintegration and dishabituation. c. can elicit fantasies that are mistaken for real memories. d. can help the person to separate and clarify real from imagined memories.
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a. reinforcement b. respondent conditioning c. feedback d. punishment
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What will be an ideal response?