Exam 12: Young Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

According to Warner Schaie, in what period do children and adolescents acquire increasingly complex structures for understanding the world through formal operational thought?

Suppose you administer a survey about sexual activity to married couples who are either African American, Hispanic, or white. What results should you expect, if these couples' responses reflect population trends in the U.S. today?

The best performance of 60-year-old marathon runners today approximately matches the best performance of 60-year-old marathon runners of a century ago.

According to the text, the young adult's development of intimacy depends most importantly on the previous development of:

Generalizing from race times reported in the text for marathon races, if the world record time for the women's half-marathon was 1 hour 20 minutes in 1900, what would you expect the world record time for women to be today for this race?

Gay men and lesbian women are more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to live is urban areas and to graduate from college.

Which of the following is the most accurate statement about how psychologists have thought about homosexuality as being a mental disorder?

Which disorder is most likely to cause urinary tract infection in men?

What law makes it illegal to discriminate against individuals with disabilities in employment

Tom, who is 20 years old, asks his brother, who is 50 years old, what percentage of his friends used condoms when they had sexual intercourse when they were Tom's age. Tom also asks his own friends about their frequency of condom use. If Tom's friends and Tom's brother's friends are typical for people of their generations, you should expect that Tom's friends are about ____ likely to use condoms during intercourse.

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:

Women are at their peak of fertility at about age 15.

Events that happen at any time without warning and create considerable stress in a person's life are called:

According to data reported in the text, over the past several years in the United States the death rate associated with AIDS has:

Research suggests that there may be a genetic link on the X chromosome for women who have a lesbian orientation, but no such genetic factor has been identified for men.

Gould considered growth in adulthood to be the process of casting off false assumptions.

If the world's fastest 60-year-olds ran a half-marathon race today, what would you expect the winning time would be?

According to a recent survey (2010) reported in the text, which of the following statements is incorrect?

Sexual orientation is best thought of as being:

To achieve complete entry into adulthood, Levinson believes that the young man must master all of the following development tasks EXCEPT: