HRS 3500 Exam 4 questions with verified answers
"Coming Out"/LGBTQ Community Ans✓✓✓ Some never achieve
complete openness about sexual orientation
Gay marriage and equality in our society today has lead to greater
openness
"Trial marriage" Ans✓✓✓ live with someone before you are married
75% of people under the age of 40 will have lived with someone at this
point
Adolescence Ans✓✓✓ Is the transition from childhood to adulthood
Legal/social definition of the entry into adulthood
Adolescent Brain (cont.) Ans✓✓✓ -Increase in white matter continues
-pruning of unused dendrites reduces great matter
-Brain becomes more efficient
-Begins in the rear of the brain & moves forward
*Frontal lobe still not reached by adolescence
,Adult Cognition (Post-Formal thought) Ans✓✓✓ using experience and
perspective/using logic to solve a problem
There is not one way to do things that is right:
-Applied in social situations
-Involves intuition, emotion, & logic
-Applies practical experience to solve ambiguous problems
-Ability to shift between reasoning & experience
-Awareness that problems can have multiple causes & solutions
Anorexia nervosa Ans✓✓✓ 0.3-0.5%
this disorder is less common than bulimia nervosa
mostly women
worse outcomes (no eating and compulsively exercise, body
dysmorphia)
Antisocial Behavior Risk Factors Ans✓✓✓ -Ineffective parenting
-School failure
-Peer influence
-Neighborhood influence
,-SES
-Programs that address these factors from an early age have been
successful
Are men or women more likely to have difficulty being stepparent?
Ans✓✓✓ Women
Average life expectancy of men and women? Ans✓✓✓ Men- age 75
Women- age 80
Bulimia nervosa Ans✓✓✓ 1-2%
better outcomes of normal weight but you purge after you eat
use of laxatives
Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
Ans✓✓✓ ---
Chapter 12: Psychosocial Development in Adolescence Ans✓✓✓ ---
Chapter 13: Physical & Cognitive Development in Young Adulthood
Ans✓✓✓ ---
, Chapter 14: Psychosocial Development in Young Adulthood Ans✓✓✓
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Cognitive Development in Young Adulthood (John Dewey) Ans✓✓✓ -
Involves continuous active evaluation of information & beliefs in the
light of evidence
**Religion is typically NOT in light of evidence (done without thinking it
through)
-Critical thinking process
-May be stimulated through higher education
Cognitive Maturation & Vocabulary Ans✓✓✓ -Vocabulary and other
aspects of language development (adolescents enjoy wordplay and
creating their own dialect)
-Strengthens group identity
-Shut out outsiders
Cognitive Maturation Ans✓✓✓ Brain maturation, environmental
stimulation, schooling & culture are important in getting to this stage
(begin to understand that there is a grey area)
"Coming Out"/LGBTQ Community Ans✓✓✓ Some never achieve
complete openness about sexual orientation
Gay marriage and equality in our society today has lead to greater
openness
"Trial marriage" Ans✓✓✓ live with someone before you are married
75% of people under the age of 40 will have lived with someone at this
point
Adolescence Ans✓✓✓ Is the transition from childhood to adulthood
Legal/social definition of the entry into adulthood
Adolescent Brain (cont.) Ans✓✓✓ -Increase in white matter continues
-pruning of unused dendrites reduces great matter
-Brain becomes more efficient
-Begins in the rear of the brain & moves forward
*Frontal lobe still not reached by adolescence
,Adult Cognition (Post-Formal thought) Ans✓✓✓ using experience and
perspective/using logic to solve a problem
There is not one way to do things that is right:
-Applied in social situations
-Involves intuition, emotion, & logic
-Applies practical experience to solve ambiguous problems
-Ability to shift between reasoning & experience
-Awareness that problems can have multiple causes & solutions
Anorexia nervosa Ans✓✓✓ 0.3-0.5%
this disorder is less common than bulimia nervosa
mostly women
worse outcomes (no eating and compulsively exercise, body
dysmorphia)
Antisocial Behavior Risk Factors Ans✓✓✓ -Ineffective parenting
-School failure
-Peer influence
-Neighborhood influence
,-SES
-Programs that address these factors from an early age have been
successful
Are men or women more likely to have difficulty being stepparent?
Ans✓✓✓ Women
Average life expectancy of men and women? Ans✓✓✓ Men- age 75
Women- age 80
Bulimia nervosa Ans✓✓✓ 1-2%
better outcomes of normal weight but you purge after you eat
use of laxatives
Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
Ans✓✓✓ ---
Chapter 12: Psychosocial Development in Adolescence Ans✓✓✓ ---
Chapter 13: Physical & Cognitive Development in Young Adulthood
Ans✓✓✓ ---
, Chapter 14: Psychosocial Development in Young Adulthood Ans✓✓✓
---
Cognitive Development in Young Adulthood (John Dewey) Ans✓✓✓ -
Involves continuous active evaluation of information & beliefs in the
light of evidence
**Religion is typically NOT in light of evidence (done without thinking it
through)
-Critical thinking process
-May be stimulated through higher education
Cognitive Maturation & Vocabulary Ans✓✓✓ -Vocabulary and other
aspects of language development (adolescents enjoy wordplay and
creating their own dialect)
-Strengthens group identity
-Shut out outsiders
Cognitive Maturation Ans✓✓✓ Brain maturation, environmental
stimulation, schooling & culture are important in getting to this stage
(begin to understand that there is a grey area)
