According to Merton,when persons hold high success aspirations and are not given the opportunity to realize them,they might

A) resort to illegitimate means of achieving their aspirations.
B) reset their goals to an even higher level.
C) feel irrepressible psychological pressures and become violent.
D) become more religious.

Aalimah has been doing research on the portrayal of seniors in popular culture. She has determined that there is a great deal of prejudice against the elderly in Canada because they are nearly always portrayed as incompetent, unattractive, confused, and in need of someone to take care of them. Which term would she use in her paper to describe this phenomenon?

A) gerontophobia
B) senescence
C) infantilism
D) ageism