Exam 12: Young Adulthood: Physical and Cognitive Development

Dr. Lee advanced a theory that prescribes that nearly all adults go through an ordered series of five "life conflicts" that define how adult development unfolds. This type of theory fits best into which of the following theoretical approaches?

According to Piaget, at which of the following ages do individuals typically reach the stage of formal operations, and thereby substantially complete their cognitive development?

According to the view of Daniel Levinson, the life structure develops out of which of the following processes?

According to the text, a person's age as measured by the additional number of years she is expected to live is called her:

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

According to Levinson, women follow much the same developmental trajectory as men do.

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

Which of the following is the leading cause of death in young adulthood?

According to the work of Daniel Goleman, which of the following is the term given to those aspects of the intellect that relate to understanding others' and one's own emotions and emotional responses?

Beginning at about age 38, most women find that:

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

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

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

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

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?

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

The text reports a study conducted on students from Harvard and Radcliffe. Compared to how their thinking was characterized as seniors, when these students were freshmen, their thinking was more likely to:

Sexual orientation is best thought of as being:

Critics of Goleman's concept of emotional intelligence note that it may simply be a different word to describe personality and cognitive traits that others have studied previously.

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.