Age Structure Diagrams ____

question 64

Multiple Choice

Age structure diagrams ____.

• A) show only two age groups: reproductive and not-reproductive
• B) show the number of males and females in the reproductive age categories only
• C) are strictly for present use and do not provide insight into future trends
• D) are useful for studying developing countries but not developed countries
• E) are useful for predicting population momentum

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanisms

Psychological strategies unconsciously used by individuals to protect themselves from anxiety and to manage emotional conflict and internal or external stressors.

Psychosexual Stages

A Freudian theory describing the stages of a child's development, each characterized by the erogenous zone that is the source of the child's psychosexual energy.

Fixations

Persistent focus on an earlier psychosexual stage due to unresolved conflicts, as per Freudian theory.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory positing children's unconscious desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy towards the same-sex parent.