Exam 12: Young Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

As people move from young adult into older adulthood, the percentage who meet guidelines for participating in aerobic and muscle strengthening activities:

In which of the following regions of the world is the rate of HIV/AIDS infection currently the highest?

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.

Professional baseball players usually hit their peak performance at younger ages than professional tennis players.

In Schaie's view, childhood and adolescence is to acquisitive as young adulthood is to:

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:

The period of middle adulthood typically extends from age 30 to age 50.

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

According to the work of Dinesh Sharma, the most important social change in contemporary world society is:

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:

Martha says, "I know who I am, I know where I'm going, and I know how to get there." According to Gould, her view is most clearly reflective the false assumption reflected by people in which of the following age categories?

Death rates are lower for people in the young adult age group than in any other age group in the U. S. today.

As adolescents become adults, their thinking becomes more _______ and more ________.

Bernice has recently experienced the sudden and unexpected death of her husband and has lost her job after working at the company for 10 years. Since both of these events were unanticipated, they would best be considered to be:

According to data presented in the text, the peak of physiological functioning occurs at about age ____ for people who have active lifestyles and at about age _____ for people who have sedentary lifestyles.

Dr. 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?

Contextual paradigms generally are most important to consider when investigating developmental changes during which of the following periods of the lifespan?

Suppose you survey a population of U. S. married adults about their sexual activity. You should expect that couples in which of the following age groups will report having sex most frequently?

According to statistics reported in the text, the use of illicit drugs and driving while drunk both reach their peak in which of the following age groups?

According to the text, peak fertility occurs for women at about age ____ and for men at about age ____.