Exam 12: Young Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

A woman may have a harder time becoming pregnant after age 38, since her production of ova becomes less regular and the number of ova she produces declines after this age.

Which of the following athletes would be most likely to reach peak performance during adolescence, rather than adulthood?

Although Mary is only 17 years old, she is married, has a child, holds a complex job, and provides the majority of her family's income. To describe Mary as being "like a 30-year-old" would emphasize which of the following concepts?

Today, more than half of men and women ages 18 to 49 engage in oral sex.

According to Schaie, what is the central task of late adulthood?

Jean Piaget proposed that the last stage of cognitive development, formal operational thought, was followed by at least three more stages of more advanced thinking, although he did not describe these stages in detail.

Jack is 60 years old, has never married, and consequently feels like he "missed out" on the most important thing in life - to fall in love and be in love with another person. According to Erikson's view of adult development, Jack is experiencing a sense of:

Parks suggests that every person is so unique that theory of adult development cannot capture the widely varying patterns of development that individuals undergo. Dr. Parks' point of view fits best into which of the following theoretical approaches?

When a person is capable of weighing both the cognitive and emotional aspects of a situation, this style of thought is called postformal thought.

What is the leading preventable cause of death?

Retirement at age 65 would be a good example of a normative event.

Ernest, a 50-year-old man, bar hops every night in search of one-night stands - a behavior more commonly associated with much younger men in their 20s. To say that Ernest acts like a man who is 25 emphasizes the concept of:

Lonnie and his friend Jake are both 40 years old, but Lonnie is much more successfully settled in his life. Lonnie is married, is raising a family, and has a job he enjoys; Jake is still dating, has held several jobs that he doesn't like, and he is just "unhappy" with his life. This example emphasizes the idea of:

In comparison with earlier stages of development, the stage of adulthood is _____ predictable and _____ variable.

Which of the following is the term that describes thought that seeks to integrate opposing or conflicting ideas and observations?

Barbara is writing a research paper on sexually transmitted diseases. If she identifies the STD that is LEAST likely to be contracted by a young adult in the U. S. today, this disease would be which of the following?

Erik Erikson saw the central developmental conflict of early adulthood to be one of identity versus confusion.

Jonathon tells his best friend: "I'm going to accept a job offer from a start-up technology company, but if that doesn't work out, I'm sure my parents will bail me out and I can always join the family business." Generalizing from Gould's theory, if Jonathon is typical for people his age, he is most likely about:

Mark is a high school biology teacher who suffered an accident and now cannot use his legs and is in a wheelchair. When he recovered and came back to work, his school moved his biology classroom from the second to the first floor, and they installed a lower lab bench so he could teach effectively in this renovated classroom. The school's response would be considered a good example of:

According to Schaie's view of adult development, young adults first enter a period of social responsibility, in which they learn to behave like adults, and then they enter a period called acquisition, in which they develop a set of career and life goals.