FAD 3220 ACTUAL 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Marcia's 4 Categories of Adolescent Development - ✔✔1. Identity Achievement
(Present): Explored and committed.
2. Moratorium (Absent): Exploring but no commitment yet.
3. Foreclosure (Present): Commitment without exploration (often parental influence).
4. Identity Diffusion (Absent): No commitment or exploration.
✔✔Suicide - ✔✔2nd most common cause of death for 15- to 24-year-olds after
accidents. Possible causes are depression, family conflicts, history of abuse and/or
neglect, drug and alcohol abuse. Warning signs include direct/indirect talk, school
difficulties, writing a will, changes in eating habits, general depression, and behavior
changes.
✔✔Physical Fitness in Early Adulthood - ✔✔People should accumulate at least 150
minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week.
✔✔Obesity in Adulthood - ✔✔On the rise in the U.S. Over 36% of adults are obese.
Increases with age. World average weight for adults is 138, in the U.S. it is 180.
✔✔Postformal Thinking - ✔✔Adult predicaments are solved by weighing all aspects of a
situation according to one's own values.
✔✔Relativistic Thinking - ✔✔Understanding that truth depends on perspective and
context.
William Perry. He also said that students entering college use dualistic thinking (black
and white).
✔✔Schaie's Stages of Development - ✔✔- Acquisitive: acquire information
- Achieving: intelligence applied to specific situations.
- Responsible: Major concerns relate to personal situations.
- Executive: Broader perspective; concerns about the world.
- Re-integrative: Focus on tasks that have personal meaning.
✔✔Pursuing Higher Education - ✔✔- U.S. college students are primarily white and
middle class.
- About 51% of college population is White
- Minority enrollment increased by 40% from 2006 to 2016.
✔✔College Adjustment - ✔✔First year adjustment reaction. Particularly affects
successful students in high school. First-gen students are susceptible too.
✔✔Emerging Adulthood - ✔✔Late teens to mid-20's. Marked by exploration, instability,
self-focus, work, and relationships.
, ✔✔Intimacy vs. Isolation (Erikson) - ✔✔Intimacy: Ability to form close relationships.
Closeness, a degree of selflessness.
Isolation: Feelings of loneliness and fear of relationships.
✔✔Triangular Theory of Love (Sternberg) - ✔✔3 components: intimacy, passion,
commitment.
8 types of love: liking, infatuation, empty love, romantic love, companionate love,
fatuous love, consummate love, nonlove.
✔✔Homogamy - ✔✔Tendency to marry someone similar in background and
characteristics.
✔✔Marriage Gradient - ✔✔Men marry women slightly younger/lower status; women
marry men slightly older/higher status.
✔✔Presbyopia - ✔✔Difficulty focusing on close objects (age-related). Loss of near
vision.
✔✔Glaucoma - ✔✔Increased pressure in eye damages optic nerve. Increased pressure
of eye fluid. 1-2% of people over 40 have this.
✔✔Presbycusis - ✔✔Age-related hearing loss, especially high-pitched sounds. Men are
more prone to hearing loss than women, starting at age 55.
✔✔Female Climacteric - ✔✔Menopause; starts around age 45. Estrogen and
progesterone levels drop.
✔✔Male Climacteric - ✔✔Andropause—gradual decline in testosterone and sperm
quality. Enlargement of prostate gland. Problems with urination.
✔✔Heart Disease - ✔✔More men die in middle age of heart disease than any other
cause. Genetic and experiential characteristics involved. Heart disease runs in families.
✔✔Type A Behavior - ✔✔Competitiveness, impatience, and a tendency toward
frustration and hostility. These people are more susceptible to heart disease.
✔✔Intelligence in Adulthood - ✔✔Fluid intelligence declines with age.
Crystallized intelligence increases with age or remains stable.
✔✔Sensory Memory - ✔✔Initial, momentary storage of information.
✔✔Short-term/Working Memory - ✔✔Holds information for 15-20 seconds.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Marcia's 4 Categories of Adolescent Development - ✔✔1. Identity Achievement
(Present): Explored and committed.
2. Moratorium (Absent): Exploring but no commitment yet.
3. Foreclosure (Present): Commitment without exploration (often parental influence).
4. Identity Diffusion (Absent): No commitment or exploration.
✔✔Suicide - ✔✔2nd most common cause of death for 15- to 24-year-olds after
accidents. Possible causes are depression, family conflicts, history of abuse and/or
neglect, drug and alcohol abuse. Warning signs include direct/indirect talk, school
difficulties, writing a will, changes in eating habits, general depression, and behavior
changes.
✔✔Physical Fitness in Early Adulthood - ✔✔People should accumulate at least 150
minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week.
✔✔Obesity in Adulthood - ✔✔On the rise in the U.S. Over 36% of adults are obese.
Increases with age. World average weight for adults is 138, in the U.S. it is 180.
✔✔Postformal Thinking - ✔✔Adult predicaments are solved by weighing all aspects of a
situation according to one's own values.
✔✔Relativistic Thinking - ✔✔Understanding that truth depends on perspective and
context.
William Perry. He also said that students entering college use dualistic thinking (black
and white).
✔✔Schaie's Stages of Development - ✔✔- Acquisitive: acquire information
- Achieving: intelligence applied to specific situations.
- Responsible: Major concerns relate to personal situations.
- Executive: Broader perspective; concerns about the world.
- Re-integrative: Focus on tasks that have personal meaning.
✔✔Pursuing Higher Education - ✔✔- U.S. college students are primarily white and
middle class.
- About 51% of college population is White
- Minority enrollment increased by 40% from 2006 to 2016.
✔✔College Adjustment - ✔✔First year adjustment reaction. Particularly affects
successful students in high school. First-gen students are susceptible too.
✔✔Emerging Adulthood - ✔✔Late teens to mid-20's. Marked by exploration, instability,
self-focus, work, and relationships.
, ✔✔Intimacy vs. Isolation (Erikson) - ✔✔Intimacy: Ability to form close relationships.
Closeness, a degree of selflessness.
Isolation: Feelings of loneliness and fear of relationships.
✔✔Triangular Theory of Love (Sternberg) - ✔✔3 components: intimacy, passion,
commitment.
8 types of love: liking, infatuation, empty love, romantic love, companionate love,
fatuous love, consummate love, nonlove.
✔✔Homogamy - ✔✔Tendency to marry someone similar in background and
characteristics.
✔✔Marriage Gradient - ✔✔Men marry women slightly younger/lower status; women
marry men slightly older/higher status.
✔✔Presbyopia - ✔✔Difficulty focusing on close objects (age-related). Loss of near
vision.
✔✔Glaucoma - ✔✔Increased pressure in eye damages optic nerve. Increased pressure
of eye fluid. 1-2% of people over 40 have this.
✔✔Presbycusis - ✔✔Age-related hearing loss, especially high-pitched sounds. Men are
more prone to hearing loss than women, starting at age 55.
✔✔Female Climacteric - ✔✔Menopause; starts around age 45. Estrogen and
progesterone levels drop.
✔✔Male Climacteric - ✔✔Andropause—gradual decline in testosterone and sperm
quality. Enlargement of prostate gland. Problems with urination.
✔✔Heart Disease - ✔✔More men die in middle age of heart disease than any other
cause. Genetic and experiential characteristics involved. Heart disease runs in families.
✔✔Type A Behavior - ✔✔Competitiveness, impatience, and a tendency toward
frustration and hostility. These people are more susceptible to heart disease.
✔✔Intelligence in Adulthood - ✔✔Fluid intelligence declines with age.
Crystallized intelligence increases with age or remains stable.
✔✔Sensory Memory - ✔✔Initial, momentary storage of information.
✔✔Short-term/Working Memory - ✔✔Holds information for 15-20 seconds.
