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

Raymond is about to graduate from high school. He is one of 100 seniors in his class who will be receiving their diploma this weekend. If Raymond's high school is typical of most in the United States, about ____ of these soon-to-be graduates will go right on to college.​

Baltes and his colleagues (2006) have suggested that intellectual development in adults should be examined while considering several different factors. They include all EXCEPT which of the following?​

Good cholesterol is to ____ as bad cholesterol is to ____.​

Colleges define returning adult students as individuals over the age of 35 who attend college.

To maximize your odds of being healthy, you should do all of the following EXCEPT​

Discuss the special conflict that Erikson believed marked young adulthood. Then describe how an individual could best resolve this conflict.

Physical strength, dexterity, and coordination tend to peak in the late teens and early twenties, and decline predictably thereafter.

Which of the following is the most common change in vision that people experience during their middle-adulthood years?​

Christina is a real character. Although she is in her early twenties, she has not "slowed down" in her need for more and more intense experiences. In the last year she has gone skydiving, bungee jumping from a bridge, has gone drag racing with her boyfriend, and has experimented with some new drugs. Christina's behaviors are an example of​

"I really think about quitting smoking," Michael often says to his friends, "but after doing it for so long I think it is too late to be of any benefit to me." What should his friends tell him?​

The idea that a person's identity can only be understood by considering where they've been, where they are, and where they are going was proposed by ____.​

Your best friend William tells you that he is thinking of moving back in with his parents now that he has graduated from college. "If I do that for a year or two, I will be able to save my money and get independent much faster than if I try living on my own right away." Since you have read this chapter and know the research into this sort of thing, what would be your best response?​

____ refers to the concept that intellectual abilities are not fixed but can be modified under the right conditions at just about any point in adulthood.​

Describe the concept of personal control beliefs, both primary and secondary.

More than 90% of those who successfully stop smoking cigarettes do so​

Nonsmokers who breathe ________________ smoke are at considerably higher risk for smoking-related diseases; each year, about 49,000 individuals die from exposure to it.

Once we reach our late twenties, our hearing typically begins to decline, particularly for ________________ tones.

Baltes and colleagues (2006) have suggested that cognitive development is "plastic," which means that intellectual deficits are immutable and cannot be remediated.

Roughly ____ people die each year from smoking-related illnesses, and medical treatment of smoking-related ailments costs more than ____ annually.​

The amount of energy the body needs is called ________________.