The fact that middle-aged adults are more concerned with generativity than adults at other stages of the lifespan is reflected in their higher rates of
A) consumerism.
B) medical complaints.
C) obesity.
D) volunteerism.
D
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The base-rate fallacy reflects
a. a failure to use consensus information. b. a failure to use consistency information. c. the actor-observer effect. d. an excessive reliance on situational attributions.
Negative emotional facial expressions are more similar across cultures than positive emotional facial expressions
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Piaget's stage of "formal operational thinking" has been the subject of many years of
cross-cultural research. This body of research has revealed that a. this developmental stage is found to occur in the vast majority of the societies studied. b. individuals in many societies never exhibit this typeof thinking. c. formal operational thinking is determined entirely by culture rather than individual experience. d. all adolescents and adults in Western technological cultures display formal operational thinking.
Kia, age 14, uses hypothetico-deductive reasoning. Therefore, she probably
A) makes predictions about variables that might affect an outcome and then deduces logical, testable inferences from that hypothesis. B) starts with what she knows, conducts observations, and revises her approach to problem solving. C) cannot yet think of alternatives when her predictions about an outcome are not confirmed. D) is strongly motivated to identify and experiment with new memory strategies, although she may not yet use new strategies effectively.