Which of the following statements is an example of selective mortality?
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 healthier than was predicted by earlier measures of their physical well-being.
c) Because of the effects of aging on the brain, older adults do less well 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.
d
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Which of the following students best describes the results of the large-scale survey of adult sexual behavior conducted by Edward Laumann and his colleagues?
a. Kerri: "Men and women have approximately the same number of sexual partners during their lifetime.". b. Nigel: "Women actually have more sexual partners than men, because women live longer.". c. Tonia: "Almost 50% of men claimed to have had more than 20 sexual partners in their lifetime.". d. Aquil: "About 17% of men and 3% of women reported having more than 20 sexual partners in their lifetime.".
Reality shock often occurs when college graduates find that the information they acquired in college overprepared them for their first real job
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false