Career Difficulties and Unemployment Can Pose Serious Challenges to Adult

question 708

Multiple Choice

Career difficulties and unemployment can pose serious challenges to adult well-being not only because of financial pressures but also because many adults derive which of the following from their work?

• A)friendships.
• B)identity.
• C)creativity
• D)structure and stability.

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Definitions:

Difference Threshold

The minimal detectable difference between two stimuli required for detection that they are not the same, also known as the just noticeable difference (JND).

Separation Threshold

The minimum distance or difference between stimuli detectable by the sensory system.

Response Threshold

It is the minimal amount of stimulus intensity required for a neuron to fire a response or for a specific response criterion to be met in behavior.

Psychophysics

The scientific study of the relationship between stimuli (which are physical) and the sensations and perceptions they produce in the observer.