Your textbook presents the case of 84-year-old Mary. What was one of the first indications that Mary was suffering from dementia?
a. She could not remember her age.
b. She reported hearing voices calling her.
c. Some of her animals were found dead because she forgot to feed them.
d. After being admitted to a nursing home, she became agitated and belligerent.
Answer: c.
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a. It has been criticized for the use of a very small sample size for generalizing to the population at large. b. It declined in popularity in the 1960s. c. It is based on the belief that self-actualization is a learned behavior. d. It has little relevance in the field of developmental psychology and organizational behavior.
Vacillation is a particularly frequent reaction to
a. approach conflicts. b. avoidance conflicts. c. multiple approach-avoidance conflicts. d. conflicts associated with negative motives.
The babbling of infants in all cultures sounds much the same, but by 9 or 10 months of age,
a. children from industrialized cultures display a greater variety of sounds. b. inborn factors result in cultural differences in languages. c. infants repeat the sounds used in the home. d. holophrases are uttered.
On a variable-interval schedule, reinforcement is given for the __________
a. first correct response after a fixed amount of time has passed b. first correct response after varying amounts of time have passed c. next correct response after a fixed number of responses have occurred d. next correct response after a varying number of responses have occurred