Chapter 10

Question 1

Emerging Adulthood

Answer 1

Period between late teens and mid-late 20s when people aren’t adults, but aren’t adols either

Question 2

Rites of Passage

Answer 2

Rituals marking initiation into adulthood

Question 3

Role Transition

Answer 3

Movement into the next stage of development marked by assumption of new responsibilities and duties

Question 4

Returning Adult Students

Answer 4

College students over age 25

Question 5

Edgework

Answer 5

The desire to live life more on the edge through physically and emotionally threatening situations on the boundary between life and death

Question 6

Intimacy v. Isolation

Answer 6

Sixth stage in Erikson’s theory and the major task for young adults

Question 7

Binge Drinking

Answer 7

Type of drinking defined for men as more than 5 drinks in a row and for women more than 4 drinks in 2 hours

Question 8

Addiction

Answer 8

Physical dependence on a substance such that withdrawal symptoms are expected when deprived of that substance

Question 9

Metabolism

Answer 9

How much energy the body needs

Question 10

Low-Density Lipoprotiens

Answer 10

(LDLs) Chemicals that cause fatty tissues to accumulate in arteries, impeding blood flow

Question 11

High-Density Lipoprotiens

Answer 11

(HDLs) Chemicals that help keep arteries clear and break down LDLs

Question 12

Body Mass Index

Answer 12

A ratio of body weight and height and is related to total body fat

Question 13

Multidimensional

Answer 13

Characteristics of theories of intelligence that identify several types of intellectual abilities

Question 14

Multidirectionality

Answer 14

Developmental pattern in which some aspects of intelligence improve and other aspects decline during adulthood

Question 15

Interindividual Variability

Answer 15

Patterns of change that vary from one person to another

Question 16

Plasticity

Answer 16

Concept that intellectual abilities are not fixed but can be modified under the right conditions at just about any point in adulthood

Question 17

Primary Mental Abilities

Answer 17

Groups of related intellectual skills; such as memory or spatial ability

Question 18

Secondary Mental Abilities

Answer 18

Broader intellectual skills that subsume and organize the primary abilities

Question 19

Fluid Intelligence

Answer 19

Abilities that make you a flexible and adaptive thinker, and enable you to understand the relations among concepts

Question 20

Crystallized Intelligence

Answer 20

The knowledge you have acquired through life experience and education in a particular culture

Question 21

Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory

Answer 21

(P-FIT) Proposes that intelligence comes from a distribution and integrated network of neurons in the parietal and frontal lobes of the brain

Question 22

Post Formal Thought

Answer 22

Thinking characterized by recognizing that the correct answer varies from one situation to another, that solutions should be realistic, that ambiguity and contradiction are typical, and that subjective factors play a role in thinking

Question 23

Reflective Judgement

Answer 23

Way in which adults reason through real-life dilemmas

Question 24

Life-Span Construct

Answer 24

A unified sense of the past, present, and future based on personal experience and input from other people

Question 25

Scenario

Answer 25

Manifestation of the life-span construct through expectations about the future

Question 26

Social Clock

Answer 26

Tagging future events with a particular time or age by which they are to be completed

Question 27

Life Story

Answer 27

A personal narrative that organizes past events into a coherent into a sequence

Question 28

Possible Selves

Answer 28

Representations of what we could become, what we would like to become and what we are afraid of becoming

Question 29

Personal Control Beliefs

Answer 29

The degree ti which you believe your performance in a situation depends on something you do

Question 30

Primary Control

Answer 30

Behavior aimed at affecting the individual’s external world

Question 31

Secondary Control

Answer 31

Behavior or cognition aimed at affecting the individual’s internal world