You have noticed that your 84-year-old great-grandmother has a much smaller set of friends than she used to have. You know that the same individuals who she used to be friends with are still living in the same neighborhood. According to Cartensen, why is your grandmother not interacting with some of the people for whom she was a friend? Older adults tend to ________.
a. withdraw from friendships that are not rewarding
b. become more reclusive
c. not care about friends any longer
d. become increasingly nervous around other old people
Answer: A
You might also like to view...
Three-year-old Kaylee wet her bed one night. In the morning, her mother said, "Wetting the bed is bad. I thought you were a good girl." Kaylee's self-evaluation is most strongly influenced by her
A) mother's feedback. B) maturity level. C) culture. D) gender.
A study that asked infants to distinguish between ABA and ABB structured strings of nonsense words revealed that infants
A) cannot detect speech patterns in nonsense words. B) can detect simple word-order rules. C) cannot detect regularities in word sequences. D) are less attentive to nonsense words than to nonspeech sounds.