The researcher Timothy Salthouse suggests that the discrepancy between cognition and competence in middle-age exists for all the reasons listed below EXCEPT
a) typical measures of cognitive skills tap a different kind of cognition than the one required for success.
b) cognitive abilities may increase, and not decrease, in middle-aged people.
c) successful middle-aged people may not be representative of middle-aged people in general.
d) the degree of cognitive ability required for success may not be that high.
b
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In Freud's theory, the release of __________ is called __________
a. the unconscious; hypnosis b. trauma; resolution c. symptoms; the unconscious d. neurosis; repression e. psychic energy; catharsis