Broom Developed a Status Scale for Australian Occupations by Doing

question 25

Multiple Choice

Broom developed a status scale for Australian occupations by doing all of the following except:

• A) weighting income by occupation.
• B) asking people to rank the prestige of certain occupations.
• C) reviewing how age, education and other variables contribute to ranks of prestige.
• D) estimating composite status scores for all occupations based on prestige ranks by occupation.

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Definitions:

Motivated Forgetting

Forgetting that occurs when something is so painful or anxiety-laden that remembering it is intolerable.

Traumatic Memories

Memories of traumatic events that are so emotionally overwhelming they are often fragmented and may lead to problems like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Repressed Memories

Memories that have been unconsciously blocked due to being associated with a high level of stress or trauma.

Proactive Interference

A phenomenon where older information learned previously interferes with the recall of newer information.