Exam 13: Early Adulthood: Physical, Cognitive, Social and Personality Development

O'Brien (1985) found that in Australia, studies show that work values account for a large and significant percentage of the variance in job satisfaction.

Which of the following has an impact on the early career development of young adults?

According to Gottman and his colleagues (2002), which of the following best predicted a couple's divorce within the first seven years of marriage?

In their investigation into Australian men and women's belief in 'true romance' as a function of their experiences of couplehood, Cunningham and Antill (1981) found that:

Charles Nelson et al. (2006) offered three recent examples of the effects of adult neurocognitive growth and plasticity on different areas of psychological functioning and behaviour. Which of the following is not an example of this growth?

Sternberg (1988) described 'romantic love' as an intimate passion with a commitment to a long- term future together.

Across Australia in 2005, ________________ percent of Aboriginal young adults were economically inactive (i.e. not employed, even part time, and not studying) as compared with 11 percent of that age group in Australia in general.

Which of the following is a developmental prerequisite for adult couple relationships?

According to Feeney (1994), marriages with at least one highly anxious partner are less likely to endure.

According to Hazan and Shaver (1990), which of the following employment experiences are likely to be associated with insecurely attached individuals?

In Australia at present, approximately 16 percent of separations take place within the couple's first year of marriage.

According to Traupmann and Hatfield (1981), for couples who stay together, the initial passion is replaced by ________________ love.

According to the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, which of the following was not reported as one of the three key life changes as women progressed from age 22 to age 30?

Cunningham and Antill (1981) propose the possibility of love developing to a higher level, where the 'score- keeping' resulting from a preoccupation with equity gradually disappears.

According to Huston & Vangelisti (1995), when comparing parents and childless couples, in the first two years of marriage a new mother gains ________________ new roles to fill each day. For a childless wife, the number decreases by ________________ role(s).

When a young adult who has been cohabiting or living with flatmates is forced by circumstances to return to the parental home, it has been associated with high levels of satisfaction and low stress.

Flavell (1970) suggested that marriage stimulates adult ________________ through the new challenges, conflicts and pleasures that it brings.

According to Erikson's theory, the development of a satisfactory and potentially lasting intimate relationship is not dependent on both partners having previously resolved their identity crisis.

At every stage in the family life cycle, husbands and wives with ________________ attachment styles were happier with marriage than men and women who had been married for the same number of years but had a(n) ________________ attachment style.

Erik Erikson (1968) defined ________________ as the personality dimension that develops out of a successful resolution of the central developmental crisis of early adulthood.