According to the vulnerability-stress-adaptation model of marriage, marital quality

a. is a dynamic process resulting from a couple's ability to handle stress.
b. declines when couples are "too" alike

c. is predicted by the age of the couple at marriage.
d. means there is one strong member of a couple and one weak member.


a

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a. Derek Humphry b. Emile Durkheim c. Howard Becker d. Karl Marx e. Howard Beacher

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a. ?as the number of bystanders witnessing an emergency increases, the likelihood that any one of the bystanders will help the victim decreases b. ?the less competent a person feels, the less likely the person will help out in an emergency c. ?the more catastrophic the emergency, the more fear will be experienced in observers, and the less likely anyone will get help d. ?the likelihood of helping a victim in an emergency is related to how similar the victim is to yourself

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Which of the following statements about forgiveness and culture is true?

A. Forgiveness may be an interpersonal process or an intrapersonal process, depending on the culture. B. Forgiveness is likely to be more common in Western cultures than Eastern cultures. C. White Americans were more likely to practice forgiveness than African Americans. D. Social harmony predicts forgiveness in Western cultures.

Psychology

At age 50, Charles cannot remember many of the fun memories from his years in college as well as he could twenty years ago. Charles' difficulty retrieving this information is likely due to

A. decay. B. motivated forgetting. C. chunking. D. encoding specificity.

Psychology