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U.S. Census data confirm that a college degree adds about ____ per year to a worker's salary

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$20,000

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The possibility that one's appearance or behavior will be missed to confirm another persons prejudices is

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Stereotype threat

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Forms of recreation that risk causing injury or death, and are attractive and thrilling as a result, are called

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Extreme sports

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What are 3 things that may be a destructive risk common in emerging adulthood?

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Driving without a seatbelt, abusing drugs, carrying a loaded gun

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Personality patterns of adults are affected by

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Cultural norms, social context, and genetic continuity

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College trends indicate that more ____ than ____ attend college

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Girls; boys

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The leading cause of death for young men in South Africa is

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AIDS

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Social phobia is most likely to be diagnosed in women around age

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20

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By age ___, the immune system can fight off just about anything from the sniffles to cancer

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20

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A commonality among intimate relationships is that they

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Progress from attraction to close connection to ongoing commitment

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Most people over the age of 65 think that premarital sex is

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Wrong

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Erikson's fifth stage of development, identity versus role confusion, starts in adolescence and is completed

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Later during adulthood

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The idea that each of us enlarges our understanding, our experiences, and our resources through our intimate relationships is known as

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Self-expansion

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The period of emerging adulthood occurs between ____ years old

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18-25

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What percentage of emerging adults has at least one sexually transmitted disease?

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50%

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Which disorder is characterized by having irrational thoughts, delusions, and hallucinations?

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Schizophrenia

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Historically, most couples had their first child as teenagers, whereas now most women are having their first child at age ___

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25

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A longitudinal study found that students at four-year colleges were more likely to be involved in ___ than were students at two-year colleges

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Extra-curricular activities

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Aggressive young adults rated themselves as

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Conscientious

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____ percent of adults in the U.S. rated their health as good, very good, or excellent

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95%

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According to a Chicago study by Laumann and Michael (2000), adults of all ages were more likely to say that they were _____ satisfied with sex if they were _______

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Extremely; in a monogamous relationship

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Schaie (2005) found that women consistently score lowest on a test that measure intellectual skills involving

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Spatial orientation

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One study found that people between ______ are most likely to be in a committed, monogamous relationships

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25-65

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Morbidity refers to the rates of ____ in a population

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Diseases

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The measure of health that determines how healthy and energetic an individual feels is

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Vitality

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Expert thought is

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Automatic

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Physical aging is ______ to most people that experience it

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Not discouraging

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Long-term hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been known to

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Increase the risk of stroke

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Infertility is defined as

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The failure to conceive a child after a year or more of intercourse without using contraception

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Spearman believed that there is

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One common factor that undergrids IQ

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What is the major benefit of moderate alcohol consumption

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Increased HDL (good cholesterol)

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What form of intelligence would be the most useful when solving real-world challenges

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Practical

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What country is the world leader of the obesity and diabetes epidemics

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United States

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The balance between various parts of the body systems is called

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Homeostasis

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Findings by Murray and others (2006) show that the 10 million Americans with the highest SES will outlive the 10 million with the lowest SES by about ____ years

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30

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The term used to signify a drop in testosterone levels in older men is

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Andropause

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What is the Flynn effect

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Rise in IQ scores that has occurred over the decades in many nations

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What is not one of the possible reasons for the Flynn effect

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Larger family size

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What is used to measure fluid intelligence

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Puzzles

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What refers to a procedure in which one sperm is inserted into one ovum

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In vetro fertilization (IVF)

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Baltes (2003) found that

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Only at age 80 did every cognitive ability show age-related average declines

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Conscientiousness is most highly valued where

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New Mexico

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As adults grow older, job changes become more stressful because

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Older workers may not have the job skills needed today, possibly age discrimination, older people aren't as willing to relocate for a job

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____ rewards of work are tangible rewards, such as salary, while ____ rewards of work are intangible rewards, such as job satisfaction

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Extrinsic; intrinsic

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Someone who becomes accepted as part of a family in which he has no blood relation is known as

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Fictive kin

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Midlife crisis

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Has not been confirmed by a large research study

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Many couples are LAT, which stands for

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Living apart together

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In the U.S., the number of declared homosexual couples

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Has likely increased due to their willingness to declare themselves in official U.S. statistics

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Martha, a prison guard, is critical of everyone and does not like to travel because of anxiety. She most likely fits into what personality cluster?

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Neuroticism

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An adult expresses generativity by

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Caring for others, such as young children

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Generally speaking, married people are a little happier than unmarried ones. However, the largest difference was found in ____, where more married than single adults were \"very happy\"

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The United States

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An arrangement in which work schedules are flexible so that employees can balance responsibilities is called

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Flextime

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_____ is to outgoing as _____ is to curiosity

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Extroversion; openness

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Divorce is more likely to occur within the first ____ years of marriage, and _____ are more likely to remarry

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5; younger men

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The belief that family members should care for each other, sacrificing personal freedom and success to do so is called

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Familism

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What are some advantages adoptive parents have?

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The biological parents are usually absent, they are legally connected to their children, and they desperately want a child

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A person's social convoy consists of

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Family, friends, and acquaintances

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A characteristic of adult friendships is that

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Friendships approve with age

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In which of Erikson's stages do adults feel the need to mentor and help younger people

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Generativity versus stagnation

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Parenthood is characterized by

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The adults being dependent on a child to meet their generativity needs, the children being dependent on the adults to meet their needs, the adult passing along their values

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What therapist explained development as a sequence not linked to chronological age

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Maslow

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