Exam 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood

Karen is 28 and concerned about losing muscle strength. She speaks to a sports medicine physician to find out what she should do. The doctor recommend will most likely recommend that Karen ______.

The most common fatal injuries among young adults over age 25 involve ______.

Young adults often find they must tailor and adapt their expectations and goals in light of their career setting.

What is the focus of the consolidation stage of occupational development?

Contextual influence such as family and educational opportunities play little role in determining career choice.

What is epistemic cognition?

Shawnell is African American and lives in a low socioeconomic status community. His mother graduated from a night program in medical records administration at a local two year college. The influence his mother has on Shawnell's occupation is that he will most likely ______.

An atypical characteristic of a nontraditional college student is ______.

Substance use tends to decline in young adulthood because young adults ______.

Perpetrators of sexual assault are most often ______.

Which factor predicts satisfaction with work-life balance and lower levels of work-life conflict?

If Rafael is consuming five drinks in one sitting, he is engaging in what type of drinking?

Postformal reasoning is universal across cultures.

Jeannie only smokes cigarettes when she goes out to a bar with friends. According to the data on smokers, when asked if she is a smoker, what would be her most likely response?

Which statement describes post-formal thought?

Which developmental outcome is influenced by college attendance?

What percentage of American adults over the age of 20 are considered obese?

Senescence is defined as ______.

Of the roughly 12,000 hookup encounters reported by students, what percentage included sexual intercourse?

Nontraditional students are better at making meaning of theoretical concepts because they have ______.