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

In 2008 the median age at first marriage in Australia was 27.6 years for women and 29.6 years for men. This in contrast to exactly ________________ years younger for both sexes in 1987.

Kacerguis and Adams (1980) discovered that a young adult's resolution of the occupational aspects of Erikson's identity crisis was a better predictor of future development progress through Erikson's stage system than other identity issues such as the crystallisation of personal values, moral codes and religious beliefs, or the development of a sense of identity as child, friend and future marriage partner.

Kurdek (1995) found that lesbian relationships were more egalitarian overall than gay male couple relationships.

Furstenberg (1976), found that parents who had unrealistically high expectations of how easy it was going to be to care for a child, and who anticipated that developmental gains such as smiling, walking, speaking and being toilet- trained would be made by their baby at far earlier ages than actually happens, adjusted relatively more poorly to parenthood.

Fisher and Pruyne (2003) discovered a sudden rise in brain growth at ages 18 to 21 that primarily involved the ________________ .

According to Feeney and colleagues (1994) an ideological preference for traditional marriage approach is growing rapidly among educated young couples in Australia and New Zealand today.

For Australian young adults in 2008, even after graduating from university or TAFE, unemployment is a real possibility. Individuals aged 20 to 24 are almost three times as likely to be unemployed those a decade older.

The adult brain forms new connections to support highly skilled motor and cognitive performance, explaining the exceptional prowess of well- trained young adult athletes and musicians.

Westbrook and Nordholm (1983) found that women's career attitudes when they first entered tertiary study ________________ to predict their levels of contentment or distress with jobs four years later.

Erik Erikson (1959, 1968) viewed the development of a career identity as an important component of the ________________ over personal identity and self- definition that spans adolescence and early adulthood.

Adults with an avoidant attachment style are inclined to immerse themselves so completely in their job that they have little time or energy left over for ________________ .

It is conventional to equate early adulthood with the chronological period from 18 to 30 years of age.

According to Seiffge- Krenke (2006), about 88 percent of German women and 75 percent of German men left home permanently between the ages of ________________ and ________________ .

According to the ABS, in 1975 ________________ percent of couples lived together before marriage. By 2006 this figure had increased to ________________ percent.

Feeney et al.'s (1993) results supported the hypothesis that ________________ influences the nature and quality of early romantic relationships.

Hogan (1980) found that those men who had violated the normative sequence (i.e. completed education, then entered a career, then married) had lower earnings than men of equivalent background who had completed these three developmental transitions in the normal order.