The Gap in Life Expectancy Between the Top 1% and Bottom

question 45

True/False

The gap in life expectancy between the top 1% and bottom 1% in income in the United States has decreased over the past 20 years.

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Definitions:

Mental Processes

Internal cognitive functions that include thinking, perceiving, decision-making, and remembering, which underlie behavior.

Behavior

The actions or reactions of an organism, often in response to external stimuli, observable through physical or verbal acts.

Science

A systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

Cognitive Neuroscientists

Scientists who study the biological processes and aspects that underlie cognition, with a particular focus on the neural connections in the brain which are involved in mental processes.