HBSE Quiz #3

According to the text, the major challenges facing young adults are taking responsibility for themselves, becoming financially independent, and ______.

• A. making independent decisions
• B. engaging with the community
• C. leaving the family home
• D. forming belief and value systems

Arnett proposed five features that make emerging adulthood distinct from adolescence and young adulthood, including self-focus, identity exploration, and ______.

• A. stability
• B. feeling in-between
• C. cynicism
• D. life structure

According to Piaget, enhanced problem-solving and reasoning capabilities comes in the ______.

• A. moral-realism stage
• B. postconventional stage
• C. preoperational stage
• D. formal operations stage

Generativity can be defined as ______.

• A. developing the capacity to transcend self-interest and provide care and concern for the next generation
• B. developing the capacity to commit to deep association with others
• C. developing a sense of who you are and where you are going in life
• D. finding integrity and contentment in your life

20. Levinson suggests that the two central components of a life structure in middle adulthood are ______.

• A. parenting and finances
• B. employment and health
• C. family and occupation
• D. occupation and education

According to Erikson’s theory, the struggle of late adulthood is ______.

• A. ego integrity versus ego despair
• B. generativity versus stagnation
• C. initiative versus guilt
• D. intimacy versus isolation

The ______ concept suggests that a historical event affects a cohort differently than it affects subsequent cohorts because of the life phase in which it occurred.

• A. historical effects
• B. cohort effects
• C. aging effects
• D. life experience effects

A person living to 100 years of age is called ______.

• A. centenarian
• B. century old person
• C. very, very, very old
• D. octogenarian