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Question 31

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Late adulthood is a time of:

A) life review,adjustment to new social roles,and diminishing strength and health.
B) expanding personal and social involvement and responsibility.
C) establishing personal and economic independence and advancing in a career.
D) selecting a mate,learning to live with that person in an intimate way,starting a family,and rearing children.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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According to APA's guidelines,all participants must know what their research participation will involve and what risks might develop.This guideline addresses which of the following issues?

A) Deception
B) Debriefing
C) Informed consent
D) Confidentiality

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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Question 33

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_____ processes involve changes in the individual's relationships with other people,changes in emotions,and changes in personality.

Flevy,a marketing researcher,is conducting an extensive market study and has hired a big group of college students to hand out a standard set of questions to shoppers at malls and supermarkets and to seek their responses.Which of the following methods of data collection is Flevy using?

People who share similar experiences due to being born during a similar time or being of a similar generation,or era,but not due to their actual age are referred to as:

_____ means the capacity for change.

In an experimental study,the _____ group serves as a baseline against which the effects of the manipulated condition can be compared.

_____ theories describe development as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion.

Jonathan is almost completely dependent on his parents for his wants and needs and is only just beginning to acquire language skills and sensorimotor coordination.Which of the following development periods is Jonathan in?

What is the connection between age and happiness? What evidence is there for this relationship and why does it exist?

Define theory and hypothesis.Illustrate your answer with an example.

Dr.McLean has designed a study to test the cognitive skills of people in their 30s,50s,and 70s,where data is collected over the course of a day through a series of tests.What type of research approach is Dr.McLean using?

What are the four important ethical issues that the APA research guidelines address? Name them and explain why they are important.

Name one advantage and one disadvantage of using surveys as a way to collect data.

_____ age is an individual's adaptive capacities compared with those of other individuals of the same chronological age.

The idea that no age period dominates development highlights the life-span perspective that development is:

If Alex uses an EEG,FMRI,and measures of cortisol in his developmental research,these tests are best referred to as:

Sharon is a 30-year-old stay-at-home mother to a toddler.Life-span developmentalists would consider her to be:

Briefly describe the ethological perspective.Provide an example that involves a critical period to support this perspective's argument.

The first stage in Erickson's theory is: