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Q:
Which one of the following is an advantage of having children late?
A.
Women have fewer medical problems during pregnancy.
B.
Parents have more physical energy.
C.
Parents have more income for child-rearing expenses.
D.
Q:
According to E. Mavis Hetherington's research, the _____ account for 20 percent of the divorced group.
A.
good-enoughs
B.
enhancers
C.
libertines
D.
Q:
What are some of the physical and psychological effects of unemployment?
According to researchers Backhans & Hemmingsson, unemployment is related to physical problems (such as heart attack and stroke), mental problems (such as depression and anxiety), marital difficulties, and homicide. A 15-year longitudinal study of more than 24,000 adults conducted by Lucas & others in 2004 found that life satisfaction dropped considerably following unemployment and increased after becoming reemployed, but did not completely return to the life satisfaction level previous to being unemployed. A recent research review conducted by Roelfs & others in 2011 concluded that unemployment was associated with an increased mortality risk for individuals in the early and middle stages of their careers, but the increase was less pronounced for those who became unemployed late in their careers.
Q:
Lesbian couples especially place a high priority on:
A.
social and economic independence.
B.
maintaining a dynamic relationship where one partner is masculine and the other is feminine.
C.
equality in their relationships.
D.
Q:
All of the following are myths about gay and lesbian couples EXCEPT:
A.
they have a large number of sexual partners.
B.
they do not have long-term relationships.
C.
one partner assumes a masculine role, and one partner assumes a feminine role.
D.
Q:
Which of the following is NOT one of John Gottman's seven main principles that determine whether a marriage will work?
A.
Overcoming gridlock
B.
Solving perpetual conflicts
C.
Letting your partner influence you
D.
Q:
Which of the following is NOT a myth about parenting?
A.
A child is an extension of the parent
B.
Parenting requires some training
C.
Parenting is an instinctual process
D.
Q:
What is postformal thought like in practice?
Q:
Based on interviews with 12- to 22-year-olds, what were William Damon's findings about adolescents' and young adults' sense of purpose?
Q:
Discuss the impact of working while in college.
Q:
Identify a challenge faced by adult smokers who are trying to quit.
Q:
What are the sexual patterns and desires of women when compared with men?
Compared with men, women are more likely to change their sexual patterns and desires. Women are more likely than men to have sexual experiences with same- and opposite-sex partners, even if they identify themselves strongly as being heterosexual or lesbian. Also, women are more likely than men to identify themselves as bisexual.
Q:
List two reasons that deaths due to HIV/AIDS have begun to decline in the United States.
Q:
Identify the theorist who recently described the career mystiqueingrained cultural beliefs that engaging in hard work for long hours through adulthood will produce a path to status, security, and happiness.
Q:
Identify the college programs that offer paid apprenticeships in the area of the student's academic field.
Cooperative (co-op) programs
Q:
List the five key features identified by Jeffrey Arnett as characterizing emerging adulthood.
Jeffrey Arnett recently concluded that five key features characterize emerging adulthood: identity exploration, especially in love and work; instability; being self-focused; feeling in-between; and the age of possibilities, a time when individuals have an opportunity to transform their lives.
Q:
According to research conducted by Wu & others in 2009, what is the best strategy to lose weight?
Q:
Identify the problems associated with excessive alcohol consumption and what are the problems posed by excessive alcohol consumption?
Q:
Identify the term given to the common practice among college students of drinking alcohol before going out.
Q:
Identify the disorder that involves long-term, repeated, uncontrolled, compulsive, and excessive use of alcoholic beverages that impairs the drinker's health and social relationships.
Q:
Identify the coercive sexual activity that is directed at someone with whom the perpetrator is at least casually acquainted.
Q:
Identify the stage of cognitive development that is believed to follow Piaget's fourth state of formal operational thought.
Q:
Identify the theorist who studied creative people, and coined the term "flow" to describe a heightened state of pleasure experienced when we are engaged in mental and physical challenges that absorb us.
Q:
Identify the ingrained cultural belief that engaging in hard work for long hours through adulthood will lead to status, security, and happiness.
The career mystique
Q:
Identify the term given recently to refer to the transition from adolescence to adulthood that occurs from approximately 18 to 25 years of age.
Q:
Identify the form of sustained exercise (e.g., jogging, swimming) that stimulates heart and lung activity.
Q:
The invisible barrier to career advancement that prevents women and ethnic minorities from holding managerial or executive jobs, regardless of their accomplishments and merits is known as the:
A.
brick wall.
B.
glass wall.
C.
glass ceiling.
D.
Q:
Carol, a mid-level manager at Pegasus Incorporated, has not received a promotion in the last three years despite good performance and good ratings at performance appraisals. If she were to be promoted, she would be the only female employee at top management level. Carol seems to have hit the:
A.
brick wall.
B.
glass wall.
C.
glass ceiling.
D.
Q:
Identify the theorist who recently concluded that five key features characterize emerging adulthood: identity exploration, instability, self-focused, feeling in-between, and the age of possibilities.
Jeffrey Arnett
Q:
More than 1,000 colleges in the United States offer cooperative (co-op) programs, which are:
A.
service jobs on campus.
B.
paid apprenticeships in a field that students are interested in pursuing.
C.
community service programs.
D.
Q:
Economic problems that led to the recession at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century produced:
A.
stability in unemployment rates.
B.
low unemployment rates.
C.
moderate change in unemployment rates.
D.
Q:
Which of the following statements is true about the impact of unemployment on an individual?
A.
Researchers have found that unemployment is related to homicide.
B.
Life satisfaction drops considerably following unemployment and completely returns upon reemployment.
C.
Temporary unemployment is the only scenario in which stress is not experienced.
D.
Q:
Which of the following changes is seen in the division of responsibility for work and family when more U.S. women took jobs outside home?
A.
U.S. men started avoiding any responsibility for maintaining the homes.
B.
U.S. women retracted and withdrew from taking responsibility for breadwinning.
C.
U.S. women and men failed to adapt any strategies to co-ordinate work and family.
D.
Q:
Which of the following statements is true about diversity in the workplace?
A.
In the United States, more than one-fourth of todays lawyers, physicians, computer scientists, and chemists are women.
B.
Women and ethnic minorities are usually able to break through the glass ceiling that aids them to reach to higher rungs on the corporate ladder.
C.
France has the highest percentage of ethnic diversity in its workplace.
D.
Q:
Which of the following is true of work patterns in the U.S.?
A.
Most individuals spend half of their time at work.
B.
Most Americans work less than 30 hours a week.
C.
More than a third of Americans work 40 hours a week.
D.
Q:
Which of the following is a trend in the U.S. workforce?
A.
Decrease in number of individuals who work at a series of jobs.
B.
Disappearance of short-term career paths for adults.
C.
Appearance of long-term careers for an increasing number of individuals.
D.
Q:
Ishmael is experiencing a lot of stress at the workplace. Trends indicated in a recent national survey of U.S. adults suggest that Ishmael:
A.
is likely to view stress as a positive thing.
B.
will be less productive because of stress.
C.
will be energized by the stress.
D.
Q:
As per the survey conducted by American Psychological Association in 2007, _____ was identified as the leading source of stress at the workplace.
A.
low salaries
B.
uncertain job expectations
C.
long working hours
D.
Q:
Which of the following statements is true about expectations at a workplace?
A.
Researchers Hall & Mirvis suggest that very few adults usually have changing expectations about work.
B.
Many workers today want less control over their work schedules.
C.
There is always absolute concurrence between the expectations of the employers and the expectations of the employees.
D.
Q:
Which of the following statements is true about working while in college?
A.
Working more hours results in a decline in grades.
B.
Working while in college has largely positive effects.
C.
Working while in college is to be discouraged as it does not contribute to education in any way.
D.
Q:
According to the U.S. government's Occupational Outlook Handbook, 20122013, which of the following areas of work are expected to account for the most new jobs in the next decade?
A.
Agriculture
B.
Manufacturing
C.
Education
D.
Q:
As per the Occupational Outlook Handbook, which of the following statements is TRUE about jobs?
A.
Projected job growth is independent of the educational requirements.
B.
According to the 20122013 handbook, service industries will generate the least number of new jobs in the next decade.
C.
Jobs that require a college degree are least expected to grow the fastest.
D.
Q:
Identify the concept, recently described by Phyllis Moen, which reflects ingrained cultural beliefs that engaging in hard work for long hours through adulthood will produce a path to status, security, and happiness.
A.
The American dream
B.
The mythical career
C.
The career mystique
D.
Q:
Ever since she passed out of college, Jane has been working long hours at her job as an accountant with a small company in the hope that her hard work will pay off, and that she will achieve success in her career and economic stability. Jane obviously believes in what Phyllis Moen describes as the:
A.
glass ceiling.
B.
mythical career.
C.
career mystique.
D.
Q:
In interviews with 12- to 22-year-olds about finding their purpose in life, William Damon found that:
A.
most expressed no aspirations, and in some instances said they didn't see any reason to have aspirations.
B.
the largest percentage had engaged in some potentially purposeful activities, but still did not have a real commitment or any reasonable plans for reaching their goals.
C.
most have a clear vision of where they want to go in life, what they want to achieve, and why.
D.
Q:
According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, _____ refers to a heightened state of pleasure experienced when we are engaged in mental and physical challenges that absorb us.
A.
bliss
B.
flow
C.
euphoria
D.
Q:
Which of the following statements is TRUE about creativity?
A.
In such fields as philosophy and history, older adults often show as less creativity as they did when they were in their thirties and forties.
B.
Typically, the most productive creators in any field are hardly as prolific as their least productive counterparts.
C.
In such fields as lyric poetry, abstract math, and theoretical physics, the peak of creativity is often reached in the late seventies or eighties.
D.
Q:
Which of the following is NOT one of the steps toward a more creative life as identified by Csikszentmihalyi?
A.
Wake up in the morning without a specific goal to look forward to.
B.
When something sparks your interest, follow it.
C.
Try to be surprised by something every day.
D.
Q:
Mini wants to know what activities would be most conducive to creative thinking. Based on what people reported in Csikszentmihalyi's research, you would suggest that Mini would be at her creative best during activities that:
A.
demand complete attention.
B.
leave little time free to think about peripheral issues.
C.
are semiautomatic.
D.
Q:
In such fields as lyric poetry, abstract math, and theoretical physics, the peak of creativity is often reached during _____.
A.
late fifties
B.
twenties or thirties
C.
early adolescence
D.
Q:
According to Piaget, the _____ stage of cognitive development characterizes adults as well as adolescents.
A.
formal operational
B.
concrete operational
C.
sensorimotor
D.
Q:
Which of the following is a similarity in the reasoning of Jean Piaget and information-processing psychologists?
A.
The cognitive ability of adolescents and young adults are quantitatively identical.
B.
Adolescents are capable of concrete operational thinking, and only in adulthood do individuals enter the formal operational stage.
C.
Adults think more idealistically than adolescents do.
D.
Q:
Some theorists have pieced together cognitive changes in young adults and proposed a new stage of cognitive development. This stage is termed as _____.
A.
preformal thought
B.
postformal thought
C.
postconventional thought
D.
Q:
Which of the following is a difference between formal operational thought and postformal thought?
A.
Realistic thinking
B.
Abstract thinking
C.
Logical thinking
D.
Q:
According to a study using the Complex Postformal Thought Questionnaire, which of the following statements about the postformal stage of cognitive development is TRUE?
A.
Adolescents are just as likely as young adults to engage in postformal thinking.
B.
College students who have cross-category friends scored higher on the postformal thought measure.
C.
College students who have cross-category friends are less likely to engage in postformal thought.
D.
Q:
Research on the idea of the postformal stage of cognitive development has:
A.
proven that formal operational thinking is qualitatively more advanced than postformal thinking.
B.
found no evidence of postformal thought in young adults.
C.
yet to document that postformal thought is a qualitatively more advanced stage than formal operational thought.
D.
Q:
According to Jean Piaget, which of the following characterizes the thinking of 7- to 11-year-olds?
A.
Preoperational thinking
B.
Formal operational thinking
C.
Concrete operational thinking
D.
Q:
Piaget stressed that young adults are more quantitatively advanced in their thinking than adolescents because:
A.
they engage in less logical and abstract thinking.
B.
they have more knowledge.
C.
they enter the concrete operational stage at about 18 years of age.
D.
Q:
Which of the following statements is true about sexual harassment?
A.
Sexual harassment of men by women also occurs but to a far lesser extent than sexual harassment of women by men.
B.
Gestures such as patting and brushing against another persons body are different from sexual harassment.
C.
Sexual harassment is absent in any educational setting.
D.
Q:
According to Piaget, which of the following is the final stage of cognitive development?
A.
Sensorimotor stage
B.
Concrete operational stage
C.
Formal operational stage
D.
Q:
According to Jean Piaget, at approximately 11 to 15 years of age, adolescents enter the _____ stage of cognitive development.
A.
formal operational
B.
concrete operational
C.
preoperational
D.
Q:
About _____ college men admit to forcing sexual activity.
A.
a quarter of
B.
3 in 4
C.
1 in 10
D.
Q:
A number of college and universities describe the "red zone" as a period of time _____ of college when women are at especially high risk for unwanted sexual experiences.
A.
early in the first year
B.
late in the last year
C.
around the second year
D.
Q:
Sexual harassment is a manifestation of:
A.
genuine attraction toward the victim.
B.
appropriate sexual contact between two individuals.
C.
power of one person over another.
D.
Q:
A major study conducted by Fisher, Cullen, & Turner in 2000 focused on campus sexual assault, involved a phone survey of 4,446 women attending two- or four-year colleges. As per the study, the highest percentage of women reported being victims of attempted rape were done by a(n) _____.
A.
boyfriend
B.
classmate
C.
ex-boyfriend
D.
Q:
A major study was conducted by Fisher, Cullen, & Turner in 2000 which focused on campus sexual assault, involved a phone survey of 4,446 women attending two- or four-year colleges. As per the study, which of the following observations is TRUE about stalking?
A.
Most women were stalked by strangers.
B.
More than half of women students said that they had been stalked.
C.
Most women knew their stalkers.
D.
Q:
Condoms are less effective against the spread of _____.
A.
syphilis
B.
herpes
C.
chlamydia
D.
Q:
Which of the following is true of rape?
A.
About two-thirds of college men usually deny that they fondle women against their will.
B.
Usually only 1,500 rapes are reported each year in the United States.
C.
Researchers point out that rapists in general are seldom angry with women.
D.
Q:
Researchers have found that male rapists share the following characteristics: aggression enhances their sense of power or masculinity; they are angry at women in general; and _____.
A.
they have an overwhelming need for sex.
B.
they want to hurt and humiliate their victims.
C.
they believe that the victim was not hurt by the rape.
D.
Q:
Gina's boyfriend forced her to have sexual intercourse with him during their last date. Gina has encountered:
A.
marital rape.
B.
date or acquaintance rape.
C.
sexual harassment.
D.
Q:
In a survey conducted by Watts & Zimmerman in 2002, _____ of female college freshman women report having been date raped or having experienced an attempted date rape at least once.
A.
one-fourth
B.
half
C.
two-thirds
D.
Q:
Reginas friend has been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection. His symptoms include fevers, night sweats, weight loss, chronic fatigue, and swollen lymph nodes. The doctor denotes that a virus has infected his immune system. Reginas friend most likely been diagnosed with which of the following sexually transmitted infections?
A.
Syphilis
B.
Chlamydia
C.
AIDS
D.
Q:
Which of the following statements is true about genital herpes?
A.
It is caused by the bacterium treponema pallidum.
B.
It is a very rare infection affecting only one in 100,000 cases.
C.
It is commonly called the drip or clap.
D.
Q:
Ryans friend has been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection. There are hard painless bumps around his anal area. The doctor reveals that it was caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). Ryans friend has been diagnosed with which of the following sexually transmitted infections?
A.
Gonorrhea
B.
Syphilis
C.
Genital warts
D.
Q:
Which of the following statements is true about bisexuality?
A.
There is lack of evidence to support that bisexuality is a stable orientation which involves attraction to both sexes.
B.
Women are usually more likely than men to identify themselves as bisexuals.
C.
Physiological responses for bisexuals during sexual arousals vastly differ to those who are heterosexuals.
D.
Q:
Manny has contracted a virus that is destroying his body's immune system. Manny most likely has _____.
A.
AIDS
B.
herpes
C.
syphilis
D.
Q:
Which of the following statements is true about sexual attitudes and behavior among men and women?
A.
Men usually hold stronger permissive attitudes about casual sex than their female counterparts.
B.
Women usually engage more in pornography use and casual sex than men.
C.
Women have slightly more sexual experience than men for most aspects of sexuality.
D.
Q:
In 1994, Robert Michael and his colleagues conducted a comprehensive survey of American sexual patterns. Results from this "Sex in America" survey suggested that Americans' sexual lives are _____ than previously believed.
A.
more conservative
B.
less conservative
C.
more active
D.
Q:
Results from the "Sex in America" survey suggest that adult sexual behavior is ruled by _____ and _____ for most Americans.
A.
abstinence; marriage
B.
kinkiness; infidelity
C.
marriage; monogamy
D.
Q:
Which of the following statements about sexual orientation is considered true today?
A.
Most individuals have a bisexual orientation.
B.
Sexual orientation is an either/or proposition where individuals are either heterosexual or homosexual.
C.
Sexual orientation is a continuum from exclusive male-female relations to exclusive same-sex relations.
D.