Practice question · Select all that apply
Select every statement that is TRUE about health across the lifespan.
Hints
- Two options misattribute risk-taking or misplace when chronic disease appears.
- Risk-taking is a normal developmental pattern, and chronic disease typically emerges in ADULTHOOD.
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- A. Adolescent risk-taking reflects a reward-versus-control maturational mismatch.
- C. Successful aging includes active engagement with life.
- E. Childhood health habits often persist into adulthood.
Why
Persisting childhood habits, the maturational mismatch, and engagement in successful aging are all true. Risk-taking is a normal developmental pattern (not a personal failing), and chronic diseases typically first emerge in adulthood - so those two are false.
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