What Is Experienced by Most Couples After All Their Children

question 62

Multiple Choice

What is experienced by most couples after all their children grow up and leave home

• A) eagerness to start a new family and looking forward to parenting 
• B) an increase in marital satisfaction 
• C) drifting apart and developing separate interests outside the home 
• D) postparental depression

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Definitions:

Environmental Stimulus

A change in the environment that elicits a response from an organism.

Sign Stimulus

Any stimulus that elicits a fixed action pattern in an animal.

Sign Stimulus

An external sensory cue that triggers a fixed action pattern in an organism, an innate response to a specific stimulus.

Dutch Ethologist

A Dutch ethologist is a scientist from the Netherlands who studies animal behavior through observational and experimental methods.