The Developmental Pattern Experienced by Most People in Which Psychological

question 110

Multiple Choice

The developmental pattern experienced by most people in which psychological functioning peaks in early middle age and starts to decline in the early eighties is called

• A) normal aging.
• B) pathological aging.
• C) everyday aging.
• D) successful aging.

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Definitions:

Constrict

To narrow; to become smaller because of contraction of a sphincter muscle.

Erythema

Diffuse redness over the skin because of capillary congestion and dilation of the superficial capillaries.

Verrucae

Warts; small, circumscribed elevations of the skin formed by hypertrophy of the papillae.

Itch Mite

A small parasitic arachnid that can cause severe itching and skin irritation, such as the one responsible for scabies.