Which of the Following BEST Explains Why Middle Adulthood Comes

question 28

Multiple Choice

Which of the following BEST explains why middle adulthood comes later and lasts longer now than in the early 1900s?

• A)People today have fewer children than people in the early 1900s.
• B)People today have a higher income than people in the early 1900s.
• C)People today have less anxiety in their lives than people in the early 1900s.
• D)People today have healthier lifestyles than people in the early 1900s.

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Definitions:

Recognition

The cognitive process of identifying a previously encountered or learned item, person, or situation.

Recall

The act of remembering or bringing back to memory previously learned information.

Encoding

The process by which information is transformed into a format that can be stored in the memory.

Persistence

The continued or prolonged existence of something, often in spite of challenges or difficulty.