When Caring for Aging Parents

question 13

Multiple Choice

When caring for aging parents,

• A) caregivers who share a household with ill parents experience the most stress.
• B) most adult children choose to move in with their parents.
• C) men rarely participate in caregiving tasks, even for their own parents.
• D) most adult children choose to hire part-time caregivers.

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Definitions:

Continuous Reinforcement

A conditioning schedule where every correct response or desired behavior is followed by a reward, used to establish or strengthen behaviors.

Food-deprived Rats

A condition used in experiments where rats are not given food for a period of time to study the effects of hunger on behavior and physiology.

Lever

A simple mechanical device consisting of a rigid bar that pivots on a fixed point, used to apply force and move an object at one end by applying force to the other.

Fixed-interval

In the context of psychology, it refers to a schedule of reinforcement where the first response is rewarded only after a specified amount of time has elapsed.