Describe what you learned about the concepts of the midlife crisis and the sandwich generation in this chapter, and provide evidence for the flawed nature of each concept
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary but will most likely include two of the following: midlife crisis,
sandwich generation, or role overload.
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Hellman et al. (1998) had pairs of men and women work on two-person tasks in which the woman was always assigned a leadership role. The women in the study were a. more confident in their leadership ability when they felt they had, at least in part, earned the position on meritthan when they were assigned to it based on their gender
b. less satisfied with their performance on the task when they felt they had been appointed leader based on meritthan when they were assigned to it based on gender. c. more negative in their appraisals of their performance than their male partners when gender was in any waypart of the decisional process for assigning leaders. d. likely to perceive the leadership selection process as unfair to the extent that their gender contributed in anyway to their leadership position.
The ___________ is the standard deviation of sample means
a. absolute mean deviation b. central dendency c. point biserial d. standard error
Perry (1981) proposed qualitative differences in adolescents’ epistemological knowledge with development. If one believes there is a set of right and wrong answers that, for example, authority figures know, and their job is to learn those answers from teachers, they are in which stage?
a. dualism b. multiplism c. relativism d. transition
When the number of responses is important to the schedule of reinforcement, that schedule is called a(n) _____ schedule
a) ratio b) interval c) conditioned d) time-delayed