Which of the following statements about U.S. middle-aged children and their aging parents is true?
A) The percentage of middle-aged adults with living parents has decreased dramatically in the last century.
B) Approximately two-thirds of older adults live in close proximity to at least one of their children.
C) Middle-aged and older adults who move usually do so away from their children or aging parents.
D) Adult children spend less time in physical proximity to their parents today than in the past.
B
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a. the belief perseverance phenomenon. b. the representativeness heuristic. c. confirmation bias. d. fixations. e. the availability heuristic.
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