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During Schaie's achieving stage, which characterizes early adulthood, people tend to use their intelligence to __________.
resolve issues relating to jobs, marriage, and social contributions
protect and nourish their spouses, families, and careers
become involved in the larger world and its social institutions
gather up information and knowledge for future use
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In today's society:
work, marriage, and parenting occur later than they used to
Approximately what percentage of young adults in the United States rate their health as good, very good, or excellent?
56.3
Senescence begins:
in late adolescence.
During emerging adulthood, unprotected sex is likely, on average, to result in pregnancy within:
3 months.
Most emerging adults believe that the purpose of sex is:
to strengthen pair bonding
The baby boomers were born:
1946-1964
One major type of problem in emerging adults in the United States is
anxiety disorder
What percentage of emerging adults in the United States have an anxiety disorder?
25
A diagnosis of schizophrenia is most common from age ___________.
18-24
_________ is the body weight that your homeostatic mechanisms seek to maintain
Set point
Jamie is 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 210 pounds. He would be classified as:
overweight
In what stage of life are the greatest proportion of people within the normal range with respect to body weight?
emerging adulthood
Forms of recreation that include apparent risk or injury or death that are attractive and thrilling as a result are referred to as
extreme sports
Drug abuse:
is harmful physically
According to Johnston et al. (2009), what age group reports the most binge drinking?
21-22
The period of emerging adulthood occurs between __________ years old.
18-25
Members of which of the following age groups are LEAST likely to report feeling disabled by a chronic illness?
18-24
Sweating when it is hot is an example of:
homeostasis
In the United States, most 18-to-24-year-olds believe that premarital sex is
not wrong at all
Which is a common anxiety disorder?
A)
post-traumatic stress
B) obsessive-compulsive disorder
C) panic attacks
D) All of these answers are correct
Answer D All
About ____ percent of all adults experience at least one episode of schizophrenia.
1
Exercise does all of the following EXCEPT
make arthritis and osteoporosis more likely.
How many emerging adults in the United States reach the standard of exercising 30 minutes a day five days a week?
two-thirds
A normal weight is
between 20 and 25 BMI.
____________ presumably makes people eat when they are hungry and stop eating when they are full.
The set point
Which are the three leading causes of death among people age 15 to 25?
accidents homicide suicide
Being a bicycle messenger is an example of:
edgework
According to the text __________ are the "telltale signs of addiction".
withdrawal symptoms
A method of reducing risky behavior among emerging adults that is based on their desire to follow standard social behavior is the:
social norms approach
The _______ approach studies how the brain encodes stores and retrieves information and the ______ approach evaluates whether a new level of cognition is reached by adults.
information-processing; stage
Todd is 26 and when he thinks about things he is more likely to be:
A)practical.
B) flexible.
C) dialectical.
D) All of these are correct.
The category of self-description that includes high self-involvement and low self-doubt is called:
protective
A practical skill of postformal thought is the ability to:
A practical skill of postformal thought is the ability to:
Moshman's puzzle study on cognition showed that emerging adults have:
cognitive flexibility
John is a 20-year-old African American who believes that success in school is for females and whites. He may be experiencing
stereotype threat
___________ is the most advanced process of cognition.
Dialectical thought
Moral values are powerfully affected by
culture and era
The third stage of the development of faith exhibits
a conformist acceptance of cultural values
Kohlberg is to moral development as __________ is to development of faith.
Fowler
The primary reason for attending college is to __________ and the secondary reason for attending college is to _______________.
learn specific skills; obtain a general education
The second phase of a three-phase process of cognitive development in college students is that they:
question personal and social values including doubts about the idea of truth
Which of the following statements best reflects the change in the campus scene in the United States?
More students are parents
The most significant influence on whether an emerging adult attends college and once enrolled will graduate is
family income
A reason for the high drop-out rate of today's college students is that they
lack the cultural knowledge or cognitive maturity to acquire the "social know-how" needed to navigate through college
Thinking in adulthood is distinguished from earlier thinking in that it is
more practical flexible and dialectical
A stage of cognitive development that enables one to combine contradictory elements into a comprehensive whole is called
postformal thought
According to research by Labouvie-Vief (2006), no one under the age of 20 was in the advanced _________ stage of self-description
integrated
By accounting for _______ the mature adult becomes a more objective and powerful thinker.
subjectivity
The ability to come up with many solutions for a problem
is a hallmark of postformal thought
The possibility that one's appearance or behavior will be misread to confirm another's oversimplified prejudiced attitudes is called
stereotype threat
The third stage of dialectical thinking is referred to as
synthesis
The Defining Issues Test was developed by ______ to assess moral reasoning through ranking possible solutions to moral dilemmas.
Rest
People who have a powerful vision of universal compassion, love, and justice are at what stage of faith?
Stage 6
According to Fowler's development of faith
progresses from a simple self-centered perspective to a more complex altruistic view
More than half of all college students incur financial debt from student loans. As a result many college graduates
worry about the impact of the debt on their economic future
In Perry's scheme of cognitive and ethical development the fourth stage is the one in which
students realize that authorities don't know the right answers and that students have a right to their own opinions
The most obvious change in colleges worldwide in the last 30 years is the increased enrollment of
women
Generally students in college foster learning more if they are:
a full-time student and work part-time
The fifth of Erik Erikson's eight stages of development (identity versus role confusion) starts in adolescence; but unlike the past, it is completed
later during adulthood
Today, many young adults view their job as
a way to earn money while they look for ways to satisfy their creative self-expressive impulses
Research on personality reveals that it is
A) genetically influenced
B) environmentally influenced
C) not fixed; plasticity is evident
D) All of these answers are correct
Answer D All
Aggressive young adults
rated themselves as quite conscientious
During this stage, Erikson believed that adults seek someone with whom to share their lives in an enduring and self-sacrificing commitment
intimacy versus isolation
Of the following, which statement concerning close friendship is true?
We earn our friends
Generally men talk about ________ while women talk about _________.
external matters; intimate and emotional matters
In their friendship, it is unlikely that Jim and Dave would
discuss their health
In many nations parents arrange marriages between children. This is an example of
children too young to be responsible for selecting a life partner
Sternberg's form of love that includes passion and commitment, but not intimacy is referred to as:
fatuous love
According to Sternberg _______ involves reciprocal emotional closeness and sharing private thoughts and feelings and _______ involves mutual caregiving and forgiveness
intimacy; commitment
The facts that most people 20 to 30 years old are not married, that fewer adults marry, and that divorce is more common are all indications that:
the tie between marriage and childbearing is loosening
International research on the importance of communication between two partners found that
A) constructive communication is not crucial for relationship satisfaction
B) women can be more demanding and men more withdrawing
C) harm from the demand/withdraw pattern is evident in the U.S. but not in
other countries
D) All of these answers are correct
Answer D All
Concerning domestic violence studies indicate that
A) 12 percent of U.S. and Canadian men have abused their partner at least once
B) the United States has a lower rate of domestic violence than other countries do
C) some studies show that more women than men are abusive to their partners
D) All of these answers are
correct
Michelle, a happily married emerging adult, enjoys spending time talking with and doing things with her mother. More than likely Michelle
was a securely attached infant
Worldwide, emerging adults think about their identities in terms of
A) political loyalties and religious commitments
B) gender roles
C) ethnic and
vocational identities
D) All of these answers are correct
Answer D All
The group of emerging adults that have more difficulty with achieving ethnic identity are
immigrants
Emerging adults who had been inhibited as children were
cautious, reserved adults with few signs of internalizing problems
According to Erikson's theory, the crisis that follows identity achievement is called
intimacy versus isolation
An important aspect of close human connections in relationships is that they
A) provide for self-expansion
B) enlarge self-understanding
C) increase one's resources in times of need
D) All of these answers are correct
Answer D All
Friends are crucial during emerging adulthood because they
provide a source of advice, companionship, information, and sympathy
Male-female friendships
are more common today among adults than they were in the past.
An example of culture influencing the relationship between love and marriage is when
A) parents arrange marriages between children
B) a couple decides to marry and then the man asks the woman's father for permission to marry her.
C) a couple marries when they feel that they are financially and emotionally independent
D) All of these answers are correct
Answer D All
Monica and Wes met during a spring break event and fell madly in love with each other. They are both physically aroused when together. Sternberg describes this aspect of love as
passion
A reason for cohabitating is to
try out marriage before making the commitment
________ is when a married couple has similar attitudes, interests, goals, and religious background.
Homogamy
According to John Gottman, a factor that is predictive of a couple's separating in the future is when
couples display disgust for each other
The type of domestic violence in which one partner systematically isolates, degrades, and punishes the other is called:
intimate terrorism
Milecka has recently married his parents' approved bride. Though he would like to move to another city to attend college, he has decided to continue to live close to his family so that he can help them. Milecka is modeling
collectivism
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