Brianna is in a quiet period of sleep where her heart rate and respiration are slow, and her brain activity is at its lowest point. Sleep researchers would say she is in __________

Max and Toni just had their first child, thereby entering a new period of their lives. According to the text, such a change in role and position would best be considered an example of what is meant by the term:

a. role transfer b. status passage c. developmental step d. developmental integrity

Often when a newborn baby is brought home from the hospital, the preschool sibling will begin to exhibit behaviors,

such as sucking his or her thumb or wetting the bed. These reactions illustrate which defense mechanism? a. compensation b. repression c. reaction formation d. regression