PSY 230 EXAM 3 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. emerging adulthood
Answer:
phase of life that begins after high school, tapers off toward the late twenties, and is devoted to
constructing an adult life.
Question:
2. what are the tasks of emerging adulthood
Answer:
take control of ourselves and act like "real adults
Question:
3. Eriksons's identity
Answer:
deciding whom to be as a person in making the transition to adulthood
Question:
4. Erikson's role confusion
Answer:
failure in identity formation, marked by the lack of any sense of a future adult path.
Question:
5. Marcia's Four Identity Statuses
Answer:
diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, achievement
Question:
6. identity diffusion
Answer:
he person is aimless or feels totally blocked, without any adult life path
Question:
7. identity foreclosure
Answer:
person decides on an adult life path (often one spelled out by an authority figure) without any thought or
active search
Question:
8. moratorium
Answer:
actively seeks out various possibilities to find a truly solid adult life path. A mature style of constructing an
identity
, Question:
9. identity achievement
Answer:
the person decides on a definite adult life path after searching out various options
Question:
10. Mihalyi Csikszenthmihalyi's flow
Answer:
term for feeling total absorption in a challenging, goal-oriented activity
Question:
11. current trends in young adult romantic relationships
Answer:
-same sex relationships
-less parent involement
-extended dating phase
Question:
12. what type of relationships aremost likely to last?
Answer:
a partner who emobodies your ideal self with a secure attachment style
Question:
13. adult attachment styles
Answer:
The different ways in which adults relate to romantic partners, based on Mary Ainsworth's infant
attachment styles (Adult attachment styles are classified as secure, preoccupied/ambivalent insecure, or
avoidant/dismissive insecure).
Question:
14. preoccupied/ambivalent insecure attachment
Answer:
an excessively clingy, needy style of relating to loved ones
Question:
15. avoidant/dismissive insecure attachment
Answer:
a standoffish, excessively disengaged style of relating to loved ones
Question:
16. secure attachment
Answer:
the genuine intimacy that is ideal in love relationships
Question:
17. deinstitutionalization of marriage
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. emerging adulthood
Answer:
phase of life that begins after high school, tapers off toward the late twenties, and is devoted to
constructing an adult life.
Question:
2. what are the tasks of emerging adulthood
Answer:
take control of ourselves and act like "real adults
Question:
3. Eriksons's identity
Answer:
deciding whom to be as a person in making the transition to adulthood
Question:
4. Erikson's role confusion
Answer:
failure in identity formation, marked by the lack of any sense of a future adult path.
Question:
5. Marcia's Four Identity Statuses
Answer:
diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, achievement
Question:
6. identity diffusion
Answer:
he person is aimless or feels totally blocked, without any adult life path
Question:
7. identity foreclosure
Answer:
person decides on an adult life path (often one spelled out by an authority figure) without any thought or
active search
Question:
8. moratorium
Answer:
actively seeks out various possibilities to find a truly solid adult life path. A mature style of constructing an
identity
, Question:
9. identity achievement
Answer:
the person decides on a definite adult life path after searching out various options
Question:
10. Mihalyi Csikszenthmihalyi's flow
Answer:
term for feeling total absorption in a challenging, goal-oriented activity
Question:
11. current trends in young adult romantic relationships
Answer:
-same sex relationships
-less parent involement
-extended dating phase
Question:
12. what type of relationships aremost likely to last?
Answer:
a partner who emobodies your ideal self with a secure attachment style
Question:
13. adult attachment styles
Answer:
The different ways in which adults relate to romantic partners, based on Mary Ainsworth's infant
attachment styles (Adult attachment styles are classified as secure, preoccupied/ambivalent insecure, or
avoidant/dismissive insecure).
Question:
14. preoccupied/ambivalent insecure attachment
Answer:
an excessively clingy, needy style of relating to loved ones
Question:
15. avoidant/dismissive insecure attachment
Answer:
a standoffish, excessively disengaged style of relating to loved ones
Question:
16. secure attachment
Answer:
the genuine intimacy that is ideal in love relationships
Question:
17. deinstitutionalization of marriage
