Deck 18: Seciton 4: Emerging Adulthood: Psychosocial Development

Question 1

Longitudinal research found that shy 4-year-old children chose a career and a romantic partner later than their peers.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Many emerging adults make decisions about their future careers on their own because their parents may have little knowledge of the labor market.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

During emerging adulthood, individuals tend to become more self-centered and less caring about others.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A person's personality can change after adolescence.

Question 5

Men tend to share activities and interests and talk mostly about external matters in their male-male friendships.

Question 6

A reasonable response to the identity search is to seek a moratorium, postponing identity achievement while exploring possibilities.

Question 7

An individual's personality influences success in high school and college, but success in high school and college also affects an individual's personality.

Question 8

An adult's need for intimacy is generally only fulfilled by a romantic partner.

Question 9

Plasticity genes can make a person more or less susceptible to environmental forces.

Question 10

Bicultural identity correlates with healthy psychosocial development.

Question 11

People tend to make more friends during adolescence than at any later period of time.

Question 12

Generally, having a firm identity frees a person to interact with people of other identities.

Question 13

Many emerging adults have to think about future careers on their own.

Question 14

Erik Erikson's sixth developmental crisis occurs during emerging adulthood and is known as intimacy versus isolation.

Question 15

During emerging adulthood, those who did not attend college are more likely to change jobs than those who attended college.

Question 16

Today, struggles around identity identification are usually resolved in adolescence.

Question 17

Almost 80 percent of emerging adults in the United States and Canada are of Asian, African, Latino, or Native American descent.

Question 18

An individual is likely to have a healthier self-image while in emerging adulthood than adolescence.

Question 19

The average young adult holds one to two distinct jobs between the ages of 18 and 25.

Question 20

Longitudinal research found that aggressive 4-year-old children grew up to be isolated, lonely emerging adults.

Question 21

Today, a couple's first shared household is more likely to involve cohabitation, not marriage.

Question 22

In situational couple violence, men tend to be the abusers and women tend to be the victims.

Question 23

About two-thirds of marriages worldwide are arranged.

Question 24

In a survey of emerging adults in North America, participants indicated that faithfulness was the most important factor in a successful long-term relationship.

Question 25

With time, partners may find that passion fades, but that does not necessarily mean they are likely to end the relationship.

Question 26

Hookups always involve sexual intercourse.

Question 27

Emerging adults today often have stronger links with their parents than young adults did in the past.

Question 28

Emerging adults of both sexes say that if they want a serious relationship with someone, they are more likely to hook up with them to see if they are sexually compatible.

Question 29

Parents of all income levels in the United States tend to provide substantial help to their adult children.

Question 30

As women have earned more money and men have done more housework, overall marital satisfaction may have increased.

Question 31

Lack of family financial support does not seem to reduce the achievement of emerging adults.

Question 32

Research has shown that the majority of college students date people of a different ethnicity.

Question 33

Conflict always leads to a lack of intimacy in relationships.

Question 34

Social networking may lead to choice overload for emerging adults' romantic prospects.

Question 35

Cross-sex friendships are almost always preludes to romance.

Question 36

When children are born into a romantic relationship, passion seems to fade for both men and women, but commitment increases.

Question 37

A detailed Dutch study found that most parents and their emerging adult children disagree on contentious issues.

Question 38

Emerging adults are marrying at younger ages than in the past.