Which of the following statements about psychosocial development in midlife is true?
A) Opportunities for vocational advancement, which are more available to men than women, tend to complicate the midlife transition.
B) Lower-SES midlifers are more able to devote the time and energy needed to realistically approach age-related changes.
C) Individuals of both sexes in blue-collar jobs have fewer opportunities for advancement, which ease the transition to middle adulthood.
D) Sustaining a youthful subjective age is more strongly related to self-esteem among Western-European than American middle-aged and older adults.
C
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a) higher-order conditioning; stronger b) generalization; weaker c) spontaneous recovery; weaker d) generalization; stronger
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