Which of the following is a difference between friendships in men and friendships in women?
A) Male friends are likely to be more competitive in friendships while female friends are less likely to be competitive.
B) Male friends are more likely to be intimate in friendships while female friends are less likely to be intimate in friendships.
C) Men who have greater physical strength have fewer friends while women who have lesser physical strength have many friends.
D) Men who have fewer friends are less likely to be depressed while women who have more friends are more likely to be depressed.
Question 2In a classic study, Ren A. Spitz found that institutionalized children who receive little or no social stimulation from caregivers:
A) appear depressed and withdrawn.
B) show great interest in adults when given more stimulation.
C) are responsive to strangers.
D) can speak by ten months of age.
Question 3In terms of friends, which of the following is true of research carried out by Toni Antonucci and Kira Burditt in 2004?
A) Women without close social ties are significantly more depressed than men.
B) For women, social isolation is connected with mortality.
C) Women are more likely than men not to have friends.
D) For men, social isolation is connected with poorer physical and psychological health.
Question 4The Harlows and their colleagues conducted studies of rhesus monkeys that were reared by wire-mesh and terry-cloth surrogate mothers. According to this study, rhesus infants reared in solitary confinement:
A) fended off attacks by other monkeys.
B) later avoided other monkeys.
C) only extended their social contacts to older monkeys.
D) were overprotective of their offspring.
Question 5Which of the following is true of sibling relationships in middle adulthood?
A) A majority of sibling relationships get cut off in middle adulthood in the United States.
B) Most adult sibling relationships tend to reflect the nature of sibling relationships in childhood.
C) Very few people in middle adulthood have at least one living brother or sister in the United States.
D) Brothers tend to have more intimate relationships than sisters.
Question 6According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, an infant's attachment to his or her mother in the first year is primarily a result of:
A) the fulfillment of oral needs.
B) genetic similarities.
C) the reinforcement and shaping of the infant's behavior by the mother.
D) the achievement of object permanence on the part of the mother.
Question 7Which of the following is true of the sandwich generation?
A) Sons always assume the major responsibility for caring for their parents than daughters.
B) They do not help out with grandchildren.
C) It consists of middle-aged children having the burden of caring for young children and aging parents.
D) It occurs when parents have to care for their children and their grandchildren at the same time.