One major difficulty with the Social Readjustment Rating Scale is that

A) the events it describes are very uncommon.
B) it assumes that women experience more stress than men.
C) it ignores a person's perceptions of the event.
D) older people get higher scores than researchers predict.

Social Readjustment Rating Scale

A scale that measures the amount of stress in one's life over a certain period of time based on the occurrence of various life events, each given a different weight.

Perceptions

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information to understand the environment and events.

Stress

A physical or psychological response to internal or external pressures, perceived as challenges or threats to well-being.