Psych Chpt 18 – Flashcards
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Grappling with personal and social problems during late adolescence and emerging adulthood using both emotion and logic demonstrates ______ thought.
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postformal
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According to Fowler's religious stages, faith, like other aspects of cognition, progresses from a(n) ______ view of life to a(n) ______ view.
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simple, self centered, one-sided; complex, unselfish
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Compared to formal operational thinking, postformal thought is characterized by:
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rationality
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Identify the characteristic of postformal thought.
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understanding that one's own perspective is one of many potentially valid views
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The study in which adults were asked to suggest solutions to 15 real-life problems demonstrated that:
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familiarity with situations enabled adults to be more flexible
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Emerging adults usually exhibit more mature reasoning ability than adolescents when a topic is:
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emotionally charged
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Most emerging adults struggle with ______; however, adults gradually master it as their cognition matures
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time management
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Research has revealed that college education leads students to become:
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more tolerant of differing religious and political views
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An adolescent ______ is most likely to reason less maturely than a young adult.
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debating whether teens should be allowed to drink
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