Which of the Following Statements Is an Example of a Time-Of-Measurement

question 32

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is an example of a time-of-measurement effect?

• A)Today's older adults are less likely to seek mental health services because when they were growing up, mental illness was stigmatized.
• B)Because exercise has become widely promoted in the media, many older adults are now exercising and thus are healthier than was predicted by earlier measures of their physical well-being.
• C)Because of the effects of aging on the brain, older adults do less well than younger adults on measures of "fluid" intelligence.
• D)In a longitudinal study, many of the elderly subjects died before the follow-up data was collected.

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