Exam 18: Emerging Adulthood: Cognitive Development

According to James Fowler, which stage of faith is the most mature?

About two-thirds of U.S. students take out loans to help pay for college.

Jonathan Haidt, a prominent theorist in moral development, contends that five distinct clusters of moral values can be discerned across various cultures. List these clusters.

If Jane has declared the most popular major in college in the United States in 2016, she is studying _____.

Carol Gilligan argued that Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development were insensitive to the morality of women. She argued that women give human needs and relationships the highest priority and were raised to develop a morality of _____.

Cognitively, what is needed to counter stereotypes?

In terms of gender, now most college students in every developed nation are _____.

The number of for-profit colleges has _____ between 1980 and 2010.

The possibility that one's appearance or behavior will be misread to confirm another person's oversimplified, prejudiced attitude is referred to as "_____."

One of the practical skills of postformal thinking is the ability to combine subjective and objective thought.

Emerging adults are more likely than older or younger people to attend religious services and to pray, even though most consider themselves less spiritual compared to when they were younger.

According to a dialectical thinker, a romance becomes troubled because relationship partners have changed without adapting to each other.

Listening to others and considering diverse opinions are signs of cognitive flexibility.

Define massification, and name at least three factors underlying it.

Kimberly broke up with Houng after dating him for two years. Heartbroken, Houng asked why. Kimberly replied, "It's me, not you. I'm to blame." Kimberly's response is an example of _____ thought.

Individuals in their early 20s are more likely than people of any other age to abuse alcohol and other drugs. However, with personal experience and learning from others, cognitive maturity leads most adults to drink occasionally and moderately from then on.

Thinking in adulthood differs from earlier thinking in three major ways: It is more _____, more flexible, and more dialectical.

A possible fifth stage of cognitive development that characterizes adult thinking is "_____ thought."

Define stereotype threat, and explain three ways in which stereotype threat may explain women's comparatively low participation in technological fields.

Grant is a fun-loving, intelligent, responsible teenager who likes to dye his hair different colors. However, he is concerned that other people might construe his hair color as a reflection of poor academic achievement. His concern is an example of "_____."