Discuss the importance of controlling one's attention during adolescence.
What will be an ideal response?
Controlling attention is a key aspect of learning and thinking in adolescence and emerging adulthood. Distractions that can interfere with attention in adolescence and emerging adulthood come from the external environment or intrusive distractions from competing thoughts in an individual's mind. Self-oriented thoughts, such as worrying, self-doubt, and intense emotionally laden thoughts may especially interfere with focusing attention on thinking tasks.
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When people such as Cohen say that a medium size difference has an effect size of .50, they are saying that we want the power for
a. one mean being half as large as another. b. one mean being half a point larger than another. c. one mean being half a standard deviation larger than another. d. one mean being based on half as many subjects as the other.
This nonparametric test is used when you have ordinal data and two correlated groups
A) rank sums test B) Kruskal-Wallis H Test C) Mann-Whitney U Test D) chi-square test for two levels of a single nominal variable E) Wilcoxon T Test
Jessica believes that if she exercises and watches her diet, she will not develop any ADL (activities of daily life) impairments in her nineties. Which is the appropriate response?
A) "Highly unlikely!" B) "True, but only if you live in Denmark." C) "True, but only if you are upper-middle class." D) "True, but only if you have the best medical care."
Which of the following statements is true of gender differences in the sexual functioning of older people?
A. Men are more likely than women to remain sexually active. B. Men are highly unlikely to report a decline in sexual desire with age. C. Health problems are more likely to affect the sex life of men than women. D. Women are more likely than men to have a spouse or partner.