Ch.10

Question 1

Period between teens to mid/late 20s where individuals are not adolescents, but not fully adults

Answer 1

Emerging adulthood

Question 2

Rituals marking initiation into adulthood

Answer 2

Rites of passage

Question 3

Movement in the next stage of development that is marked by the assumption of new responsibilities

Answer 3

Role transitions

Question 4

College students over age 25

Answer 4

Returning adult students

Question 5

Desire to live life on edge through physical and emotion life-threatening situations

Answer 5

Edgework

Question 6

6th stage in Erikson’s theory that is the major psychosocial task for young adults

Answer 6

Intimacy vs isolation

Question 7

Type of drinking based on men consuming 5+ drinks and women drinking 4+ drinks in the past 2 weeks

Answer 7

Binge drinking

Question 8

Characteristic of theories of intelligence that identifies certain intellectual abilities

Answer 8

Multidimensional

Question 9

Developmental pattern where some intelligence improves or declines during adulthood

Answer 9

Multidirectionality

Question 10

Patterns of changes that vary from one another

Answer 10

Interindividual variability

Question 11

Belief that intellectual abilities are not fixed, but can be modified at any point in adulthood under the right conditions

Answer 11

Plasticity

Question 12

Groups of related intellectual skills

Answer 12

Primary mental ability

Question 13

Broad intellectual skills that absorb or organize primary mental abilities

Answer 13

Secondary mental abilites

Question 14

Abilities that make a person flexible and an adaptable thinker, allowing them to infer, and enable them to understand relations among concepts

Answer 14

Fluid intelligence

Question 15

Knowledge acquired through life experiences and education in a particular culture

Answer 15

Crystallized intelligence

Question 16

Proposal that intelligence comes from a distributed, integrated network or neurons in the parietal and frontal lobes of the brain

Answer 16

Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory
(P-FIT)

Question 17

Thinking based on recognizing that the correct answer varies from one situation to another, that solutions should be realistic, and subjective factors play a role in thinking

Answer 17

Post formal thought

Question 18

The way in which adults reason through real-life dilemmas

Answer 18

Reflective judgement

Question 19

United sense of the past,present, and future based on personal experiences and the input of others

Answer 19

Life-span construct

Question 20

Marking future events with a particular time/age to be completed

Answer 20

Social clock

Question 21

Personal narrative that organized pasts events into a coherent sequence

Answer 21

Life story

Question 22

Representation of what one could become, what one would like to become, and what one is afraid of becoming

Answer 22

Possible selves

Question 23

Degree to where you believe your performance in situations depend on what you do/control

Answer 23

Personal control beliefs

Question 24

Behavior aimed at affecting one’s external world

Answer 24

Primary control

Question 25

Behavior aimed at affecting one’s internal world

Answer 25

Secondary control