emerging adulthood chapter 9 week 7

Question 1

Now the median age of marriage in Australia is ___for men and ____ years for women

Answer 1

31.8 , 29.8

Question 2

What are the five characteristics that
distinguish emerging adulthood from other age periods

Answer 2

1 the age of identity explorations
2 the age of instability
3 the self-focused age
4 the age of feeling in-between
5 the age of possibilities.

Question 3

ability of the body to take in
oxygen and transport it to
various organs; also called
maximum oxygen update

Answer 3

VO2 max

Question 4

quantity of blood flow from the
heart

Answer 4

cardiac output

Question 5

What are the main health risks in emerging adulthood.

Answer 5

car accidents and substance abuse

Question 6

T or F Emerging adulthood is
the life stage of peak physical functioning

Answer 6

T

Question 7

VO2 max peaks in early __

Answer 7

20a

Question 8

Peak bone mass in reached in the ___

Answer 8

20s

Question 9

immune system is most effective?

Answer 9

late teens and early 20s

Question 10

University students are more than twice as
likely as other adults to report the symptoms of _________

Answer 10

delayed sleep phase syndrome

Question 11

restraints on behaviour imposed
by social obligations and
relationships

Answer 11

social control

Question 12

government program in which
young people obtain driving
privileges gradually, contingent
on a safe driving record, rather
than all at once

Answer 12

graduated driver licensing
(GDL)

Question 13

consuming five or more drinks in
a row for men, four in a row for
women

Answer 13

binge drinking

Question 14

socialising with friends without
any specific goal or activity;
includes behaviour such as riding
around in a car for fun, going to
parties, visiting friends informally
and going out with friends

Answer 14

unstructured socialising

Question 15

according to some theorists, the
stage of cognitive development
that follows formal operations and
includes advances in pragmatism
and reflective judgment

Answer 15

post-formal thinking

Question 16

theory of cognitive development
proposing that post-formal
thinking involves adapting logical
thinking to the practical
constraints of real-life situations

Answer 16

pragmatism

Question 17

according to Basseches, a kind
of thinking in emerging
adulthood that involves a
growing awareness that
problems often have no clear
solution and two opposing
strategies or points of view may
each have some merit

Answer 17

dialectical thought

Question 18

capacity to evaluate the
accuracy and logical coherence
of evidence and arguments,
theorised to develop during
emerging adulthood

Answer 18

reflective judgment

Question 19

in Erikson’s theory, the crisis of
adolescence, with two
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alternative paths, establishing a
clear and definite identity or
experiencing role confusion,
which is a failure to form a
stable and secure identity

Answer 19

identity versus role confusion

Question 20

model for researching Erikson’s
theory of identity development,
classifying identity development
into four categories: diffusion,
foreclosure, moratorium or
achievement

Answer 20

identity status model

Question 21

identity with two distinct facets;
for example, one for the local
culture and one for the global
culture, or one within one’s
ethnic group and one for others

Answer 21

bicultural identity

Question 22

belief that others possess
certain characteristics simply as
a result of being a member of a
particular group

Answer 22

stereotype

Question 23

unmarried romantic partners
living together

Answer 23

cohabitation