What is the term for changes that occur in most members of a cohort as a result of factors at work during a specific, well-defined historical period?
A) Nonnormative change
B) General normative change
C) Normative age-graded change
D) Normative history-graded change
D
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Which of the following statements best encapsulates the relationship between stress and physical illness according to psycho-neuroimmunologists?
a. Stress compromises the body's immune system, leaving a person vulnerable to illness. b. Stress increases the production of natural killer cells, which causes cell death and leads to illness. c. Stress causes high blood pressure, heart disease, and cancer. d. Stress has no direct relationship to physical illness, though physicians tell us that these things are related so that we will be more willing to take unnecessary medications. e. Stress is the single biggest cause of cancer, and research has repeatedly confirmed this.
Allen volunteers to visit the homes of AIDS patients because those visits help him forget about his own problems. This is an example of ________ behavior
a. altruistic b. self-sacrificing c. prosocial d. reciprocal