Exam 10: Becoming an Adult: Physical, Cognitive, and Personality Development in Young Adulthood

Pepper has a firm sense of her childhood, who she is as a person today, and how she will live her life in the future. This constitutes Pepper's:

The parieto-frontal integration theory proposes that emotional memory comes from a distributed and integrated network of neurons in the parietal and frontal areas of the brain.

Sixty-year-old Norbert says, "When I was a teenager, I could eat five big meals a day and still feel hungry. Now a couple of snacks can get me through the day." What BEST accounts for this age-related change?

Based on statistics, which of these 30-year-old adults is MOST likely to die within a year?

One of the MOST likely reasons for the typical developmental path for crystallized intelligence is that:

The _____ is not fully developed until the mid-twenties.

Postformal thinking requires the acceptance of multiple solutions.

Richard has just been told by his physician that he should cut back on the amount of fat in his diet. His physician is MOST likely concerned about the high amount of ____ in Richard's blood.

Which markers BEST describe the transition into adulthood in most Western societies?

Evidence for interindividual variability in intelligence is BEST demonstrated when:

When making a court decision, Judge Ito says, "I try to come to reasonable solutions based on the best arguments that I have available." Judge Ito appears to be in the ____ stages of reflective judgment.

Yacef suddenly finds himself newly married and out of school with a new job. Yacef is experiencing:

Jason believes that gun control is absolutely wrong and that the right to possess guns is an absolute right. Jason would probably be closest to the ____ stage of reflective judgment.

A baseball coach tells a pitcher, "With a little training, I think that you could learn to throw a knuckleball." This provides a good example of a belief in the ____ of an ability.

Role transitions always:

Possible selves become more numerous and varied the older a person gets.

Low-density lipoproteins:

What constitutes the highest level of thinking in adulthood?

Poverty and racism are key reasons for the poor health conditions found in inner-city neighborhoods.

In the United States, about ____ percent of young adults ages 25 to 44 consume alcohol occasionally.