Regarding the Challenges of Adulthood, Which of the Following Statements

question 705

Multiple Choice

Regarding the challenges of adulthood, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)The work that adults do in their careers is critical to feeling successful.
• B)Some of the common social challenges faced by adults include becoming "empty nesters," becoming grandparents, experiencing marital strife or divorce, living as singles or in blended families, and seeing parents grow old.
• C)About 80 percent of men and women in Western societies believe that they have experienced a midlife crisis.
• D)How an adult deals with the inevitable slow declines during adulthood strongly influences that person's degree of life satisfaction.

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Definitions:

Misinformation Effect

The phenomenon where a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate due to post-event information.

Fundamental Attribution Error

It is the tendency to overemphasize personality-based explanations for others' behaviors while underestimating the role of situational factors.

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.

Correspondent Inference

The perceived quality of alternatives to the current relationship