correct answers 2025/2026
emerging adulthood - correct answer ✔✔the period of life between the ages of 18 and 25
True or false: beginning in emerging adulthood, rates of HIV diagnosis/people living with HIV
begins to decrease - correct answer ✔✔False
Destructive risks more common in emerging adulthood are: - correct answer ✔✔- unprotected
sex with a new partner
- driving fast without a seat belt
- abusing drugs
- addictive gambling
True or false: highest reports of heavy drinking comes between ages of 18-34 - correct answer
✔✔True
Reproduction - correct answer ✔✔reported as the main purpose of sex (more for some than
men, older than younger)
Relationship - correct answer ✔✔believed by 1/2 of people in the U.S (more women than men)
that sex is to strengthen pair bonding
Preferred sequence of a relationship: - correct answer ✔✔date
fall in love
decide on faithfulness
,have sex
live together
marry
have children
Recreation - correct answer ✔✔believed by 1/4 of the people in the U.S (more men than
women) that sex is a fundamental human drive that is highly pleasurable physical and mental
ability
Ideally, both partners orgasm without making commitment
social norms approach - correct answer ✔✔a method of reducing risky behavior that uses
emerging adults' desire to follow social norms by making them aware, through the use of
surveys, of the prevalence of various behaviors within their peer group
postformal thought - correct answer ✔✔Beyond Piaget's four stages, adult thinking that is more
practical, flexible, and dialectical (that is, more capable of combining contradictory elements
into a comprehensive whole).
True or false: postformal thought is characterized by "problem finding" not just "problem
solving" - correct answer ✔✔True
True or false: logical skills declined from adolescence to emerging adulthood and then stayed
steady - correct answer ✔✔False
subjective thought - correct answer ✔✔thinking that is strongly influenced by personal qualities
of the individual thinker, such as past experiences, cultural assumptions, and goals for the
future
objective thought - correct answer ✔✔thinking that is not influenced by the thinker's personal
qualities but instead involves facts and numbers that are universally considered true and valid
, dialectical thought - correct answer ✔✔The ability to consider a thesis and its antithesis
simultaneously and thus to arrive at a synthesis
Thesis - correct answer ✔✔a proposition or statement of belief; the first stage of the process of
dialectical thinking
Antithesis - correct answer ✔✔a proposition or statement or belief that opposes the thesis; the
second stage of the process of dialectical thinking
Synthesis - correct answer ✔✔a new idea that integrates the thesis and its antithesis, thus
representing a new and more comprehensive level of truth; the third stage of the process of
dialectical thinking
stereotype threat - correct answer ✔✔The possibility that one's appearance or behavior will be
misread to confirm another person's oversimplified, prejudiced attitudes.
Males and same-sex friends - correct answer ✔✔Greater number of friends
Demand less of friends
Less likely to divulge failures, emotional problems, relationship dilemmas
Apt to give practical advice
Physical contact through competition or combat
cross-sex friendships - correct answer ✔✔-differences more cultural than biological
-in emerging adulthood, helps expand self and gender boundaries
-usually not a prelude to romance, but not always the case
-outsider assumptions can cause problems