Exam 12: Young Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Camilla has established a mutually satisfactory close relationship with Herb. This couple has achieved what Erik Erikson called:

According to Havighurst, selecting a mate and rearing children are tasks of:

In Germany in 1600, about ____ of children died before they reached adulthood; in the U.S. today this percentage is about _____.

If you and your friends identified the "five best baseball players of all time" and computed the average age at which each of them had his best season, this average age would most likely be:

Following graduation from college, Mark and Lisa got engaged and began looking for jobs in the same city. Their situation is typical for the majority of people in their age cohort, so it is called a(n):

The early adult years are likely to be the time of adulthood in which use of drugs and alcohol is highest.

In comparison to people growing up in the 1990s, young adults today are more likely to:

Age clocks let us know whether our development is proceeding too quickly or too slowly.

According to the text, which of the following types of events typically cause the most stress?

According to the text, the most accurate answer to the question, "What causes a person to develop a same-sex orientation?" is:

According to the text, in comparison with earlier times, the death of a child today is _____ traumatic because____________.

As Shelly gets older, she is better able to work productively with people she doesn't like or doesn't respect. This ability is most central to which of the following concepts?

According to the text, if you were a volunteer working with an AIDS population in Africa today, you would need to raise about how many dollars to pay for one patient's antiretroviral therapy for a year?

Sexual orientation is best thought of as being:

According to Erik Erikson, young adults typically experience the crisis of:

For adults today, what are the top 3 leading causes of preventable death:

David has been a defense lawyer for 15 years. Now in his early 40s, he has volunteered his services to battered women in the community. According to Schaie, David's application of his cognitive skills reflects what stage of adult thinking?

During the decades of the 1970s, the average duration of sexual intercourse declined, although the frequency of sexual intercourse increased.

Schaie's stage of social responsibility typically occurs during:

According to Havighurst, which of the following is a developmental task most commonly associated with middle age?