Which term refers to parents' feelings of unhappiness, worry, loneliness, and depression resulting from their children's departure from home?

a) Midlife crisis
b) Normative crisis model
c) Empty nest syndrome
d) Life events model


Answer: c

Psychology

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In the U.S., infants and young children from ____________________ are more likely to display signs of poor nutrition such as anemia or Failure to Thrive (FTT) syndrome than are other children

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Psychology

The term ____________ applies better to human development than the strict notion of a critical period

A) resilience B) discontinuity C) sensitive period D) equilibrium

Psychology

In contrast to chronic stress, short-term stress:

a. Decreases the activity of neurons within the hypothalamus b. Does not alter the immune system c. Enhances the immune response d. Inactivates white blood cells

Psychology

Research on lineup administration by Greathouse and Kovera (2009) suggests that the police officer who conducts a lineup

a. can affect the actual identification that a witness makes. b. can impact how confident an eyewitness is. c. will not unduly bias an eyewitness as he or she makes a conscious effort not to. d. None of these

Psychology