Which of the following statements is an example of a time-of-measurement effect?
a) Today's older adults are less likely to seek mental health services because when they were growing up, mental illness was stigmatized.
b) Because exercise has become widely promoted in the media, many older adults are now exercising and thus are healthier than predicted by earlier measures of their physical well-being.
c) Because of the effects of aging on the brain, older adults do worse than younger adults on measures of "fluid" intelligence.
d) In a longitudinal study, many of the elderly subjects died before the follow-up data was collected.
b
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Damage to the hypothalamus may likely result in
a. problems with temperature regulation. b. visual acuity. c. impaired control of fine motor movements. d. slurred speech. e. impaired control of gross motor movements.
Which of the following statements regarding students' ratings of their elementary, middle-, and high school learning experiences is true?
A) Students tend to rate their high school experiences more favorably than their elementary school experiences. B) Students report that their middle- and high school teachers care less about them and are less friendly than their elementary school teachers. C) Students tend to rate their middle-school experiences more favorably than their elementary school experiences. D) Students report that their elementary school teachers graded less fairly and stressed competition more than their middle- and high school teachers.