Which of the following events is the best example of a nonnormative event?
a. retiring at age 65
b. experiencing menopause at age 52
c. having a spouse killed in a car accident at age 48
d. having wrinkles appear on one's face as one gets older
c
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According to the article Old Folks at Home, concerning the ability of older people to perform household tasks, a main finding was that:
(a) expertise from years of task performance helped the older people do better than the younger people on some tasks (b) elderly people show deficits on tasks, even when the comparison with young people is as fair as possible (c) the humor in the unfamiliar tasks gave elderly people an unfair advantage in this research (d) if they were not tested in the lab, elderly people would probably perform ordinary tasks as well as young people do
After an armed robbery, witnesses aren't often able to describe the culprit. Which of the following are most likely the reasons why?
a. The event was unexpected, and they were frightened. b. The lights were too bright, and they saw everything but can't put it into words. c. The event seemed planned and was distracting. d. They were looking somewhere else and thinking about other things.