Exam 10: Becoming an Adult: Physical, Cognitive, and Personality Development in Young Adulthood.

Ruth has been smoking cigarettes for many years, and her habit has become so severe that she smokes at least two packs every day. For which of the following medical issues is she at increased risk?​

Steve is on a first date with Nora. They are getting along well, when Nora suddenly hits Steve with a very deep question. "Where do you see yourself in 10 years, Steve?" she asks. Steve nearly chokes on his coffee, as he was just thinking about whether he'd get a goodnight kiss in an hour, not what he'd be doing in a decade. Nora has asked Steve to consider his ____.

The abilities that make you a flexible and adaptive thinker, allowing you to make inferences and enabling you to understand the relationships among concepts are called ____ intelligence.​

A bar or bat mitzvah, graduating from high school, and getting married are all examples of rites of ________________.

Alcoholism is viewed by most experts as being separate and different from addiction to other mind-altering substances, since it is the most easily treated form of substance-related problem.

The term ____ refers to the amount of energy one's body needs.​

According to Erikson, the major task for young adults is to deal with the psychosocial conflict of ____.​

For a person who has smoked for some time and has given up cigarettes, the risks of stroke and coronary heart disease return to normal after a period of ________________ year(s).

A life-span construct refers to one's expectations about the future.

Feared selves represent who we could become and what we would like to become, as well as the specific age by which we would like those changes to occur.

Primary control is aimed at affecting an individual's external world, while secondary control is aimed at affecting an individual's internal world.

​Nicola is 18 years old and engages in many risky behaviors. For example, she drives very fast and recklessly, and does not use any protection when having sex. If Nicola is a typical adolescent, these behaviors will ____ when she gets older.

The ____ campaign was launched in 2011 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help people make better, healthier selections when it came to their meals.​

The most common problem reported by college students who are frequent binge drinkers is​

According to the ________________ Integration Theory (P-FIT), intelligence is contributed to by an elaborate network of neurons found in two different lobes of the cerebrum.

Physical functioning generally peaks during​

Some human developmentalists view the late teens through the early thirties as a period called "emerging adulthood," a time when one is no longer an adolescent but not quite fully an adult.

Cigarette smoking is associated with many different forms of cancer, including cervix, colon, bladder, and stomach cancer.

Binge drinking is defined for men as consuming ____ or more drinks in a row and for women as consuming ____ or more drinks in a row within the past two weeks.​

Which statement by 30-year-old Flossie, who is typical for a person of her age, is most likely false?​