When Scott, a 75-year-old gay man, learned that he had late-stage lymphoma, he felt that his accumulated loss of friends and lovers to AIDS and his subsequent suffering had
a. weakened him to the point he was ready to die.
b. made him completely numb and unable to feel anything.
c. made him want to go back into the closet.
d. enabled him to face the news calmly and philosophically.
Answer: d
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a. Diagnosable depression typically emerges in adulthood for both males and females. b. The rate of diagnosable depression is about twice as high for females compared to that of males. c. The rate of diagnosable depression is higher for females than for males during their adolescent years but this rate evens out as both males and females enter adulthood. d. The rate of diagnosable depression is higher for males than for females during their adolescent years but this rate evens out as both males and females enter adulthood.
____is a term used when two-earner couples exchange child care and work roles daily or even more often than that
a. "Tag team" b. "Day care war" c. "Flip flop" d. "Self-care"
Anthropologist Edward Hall first described the concept of personal space, which is defined as the immediate area surrounding a person that the person claims as private
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Jocelyn wanted to explain the changes in teen-age car crashes over the past decade. She wanted to examine the effect of several variables on the changes over time in teenage car crashes. It would be best to use
a. path analysis. b. factor analysis. c. time-series analysis. d. linear regression. e. content analysis.