In the context of unemployment, which of the following is true of the findings of a study conducted on married women?
A) Older women were more likely than younger women to take a job that they did not like as long as the pay was reasonable.
B) Older women were more likely to accept jobs that interfered with their home life.
C) Older women were least likely to experience declines in their well-being due to unemployment than younger women.
D) Older women were least likely to suffer financial strain following the loss of employment.
D
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Chapter 4 discussed a classic study by Wickens and his colleagues (1976) in which each of five groups of participants learned a series of words belonging to one category (e.g., "occupations" or "meats")
On the final trial, they all switched to words belonging to a new category ("fruits"). What did the results of this study show about the recall for this final set of words? a. Contrary to expectations, semantic similarity had no influence on recall. b. Contrary to expectations, participants explained that they stored these final words in terms of visual images. c. Participants in all five groups showed no release from proactive interference. d. Recall on the final set of words was most accurate when the previous items had belonged to a different semantic category.
According to Vygotsky, the process of taking external speech and activity and making it internal and mental is called
A) internalization. B) externalization. C) mediation. D) privatization.