MINI-CHAPTER
EMERGING ADULTHOOD
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1) Pedro is 19 and in college. He is asked whether he considers himself to have reached adulthood. Which of the
following answers will he most likely give?
A) “Yes, when I turned 18.”
B) “No, not until I’m 21.”
C) “Yes and no.”
D) “I guess so.”
Answer: C
Page Ref: 3
Skill: Apply
Objective: 16.1
2) When sampled, most 18- to 25-year-olds in the United States felt they had reached adulthood
A) when they turned 18.
B) when they turned 21.
C) about the time they got their first full-time job.
D) when they reached their late twenties and early thirties.
Answer: D
Page Ref: 3
Skill: Remember
Objective: 16.1
3) Rachel graduated from college and immediately took a Peace Corps assignment. When she finished, she came back
to the United States and entered graduate school. American psychologist Jeffrey Arnett calls this exploration of
possibilities and deferment of a more traditional career-and-family lifestyle a period of
A) postformal thought.
B) emerging adulthood.
C) cognitive immaturity.
D) dualistic thinking.
Answer: B
Page Ref: 3
Skill: Apply
, Objective: 16.1
4) In a survey of parents of a large sample of ethnically and religiously diverse U.S. undergraduate and graduate
students, most viewed their children as
A) financially competent, but morally deficient.
B) socially mature, but cognitively immature.
C) fully mature adults.
D) not yet fully adult.
Answer: D
Page Ref: 3
Skill: Understand
Objective: 16.1
,5) The adult milestones of finishing school, living on one’s own, launching a career, and building a lasting intimate
partnership
A) are highly diverse in timing and order across individuals.
B) typically occur in a relatively set pattern among individuals in industrialized countries.
C) are accomplished by age 25 for most people.
D) often lead to an extended identity crisis.
Answer: A
Page Ref: 4
Skill: Understand
Objective: 16.1
6) Many researchers view the older age for first marriage over the past 50 years in the United States as due to
A) a struggling economy and a lack of financial security.
B) young people’s inability to form healthy intimate attachments.
C) a longer period of experimentation with sexuality and intimacy.
D) disadvantages related to living expenses and income tax penalties.
Answer: C
Page Ref: 4
Skill: Understand
Objective: 16.1
7) More than half of 18- to 25-year-olds’ preferred way of entering into a committed intimate partnership is through
A) an online dating service.
B) cohabitation.
C) traditional courtship and marriage.
D) experimentation with a wide range of partners.
Answer: B
Page Ref: 4
Skill: Remember
Objective: 16.1
8) Which of the following emerging adults is most likely to live independently?
A) Sam, a low-SES man
B) Tricia, a high-SES woman
C) Nick, a Native-American man
, D) Leesa, an African-American woman
Answer: B
Page Ref: 5
Skill: Apply
Objective: 16.1
9) Research suggests that emerging adulthood—the rich, complex bridge between adolescence and the assumption
of adult responsibilities—is a(n)
A) cultural construction.
B) long-established developmental phase.
C) universal stage of development.
D) excuse for immature young people.
Answer: A
Page Ref: 5
Skill: Remember
Objective: 16.1
EMERGING ADULTHOOD
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1) Pedro is 19 and in college. He is asked whether he considers himself to have reached adulthood. Which of the
following answers will he most likely give?
A) “Yes, when I turned 18.”
B) “No, not until I’m 21.”
C) “Yes and no.”
D) “I guess so.”
Answer: C
Page Ref: 3
Skill: Apply
Objective: 16.1
2) When sampled, most 18- to 25-year-olds in the United States felt they had reached adulthood
A) when they turned 18.
B) when they turned 21.
C) about the time they got their first full-time job.
D) when they reached their late twenties and early thirties.
Answer: D
Page Ref: 3
Skill: Remember
Objective: 16.1
3) Rachel graduated from college and immediately took a Peace Corps assignment. When she finished, she came back
to the United States and entered graduate school. American psychologist Jeffrey Arnett calls this exploration of
possibilities and deferment of a more traditional career-and-family lifestyle a period of
A) postformal thought.
B) emerging adulthood.
C) cognitive immaturity.
D) dualistic thinking.
Answer: B
Page Ref: 3
Skill: Apply
, Objective: 16.1
4) In a survey of parents of a large sample of ethnically and religiously diverse U.S. undergraduate and graduate
students, most viewed their children as
A) financially competent, but morally deficient.
B) socially mature, but cognitively immature.
C) fully mature adults.
D) not yet fully adult.
Answer: D
Page Ref: 3
Skill: Understand
Objective: 16.1
,5) The adult milestones of finishing school, living on one’s own, launching a career, and building a lasting intimate
partnership
A) are highly diverse in timing and order across individuals.
B) typically occur in a relatively set pattern among individuals in industrialized countries.
C) are accomplished by age 25 for most people.
D) often lead to an extended identity crisis.
Answer: A
Page Ref: 4
Skill: Understand
Objective: 16.1
6) Many researchers view the older age for first marriage over the past 50 years in the United States as due to
A) a struggling economy and a lack of financial security.
B) young people’s inability to form healthy intimate attachments.
C) a longer period of experimentation with sexuality and intimacy.
D) disadvantages related to living expenses and income tax penalties.
Answer: C
Page Ref: 4
Skill: Understand
Objective: 16.1
7) More than half of 18- to 25-year-olds’ preferred way of entering into a committed intimate partnership is through
A) an online dating service.
B) cohabitation.
C) traditional courtship and marriage.
D) experimentation with a wide range of partners.
Answer: B
Page Ref: 4
Skill: Remember
Objective: 16.1
8) Which of the following emerging adults is most likely to live independently?
A) Sam, a low-SES man
B) Tricia, a high-SES woman
C) Nick, a Native-American man
, D) Leesa, an African-American woman
Answer: B
Page Ref: 5
Skill: Apply
Objective: 16.1
9) Research suggests that emerging adulthood—the rich, complex bridge between adolescence and the assumption
of adult responsibilities—is a(n)
A) cultural construction.
B) long-established developmental phase.
C) universal stage of development.
D) excuse for immature young people.
Answer: A
Page Ref: 5
Skill: Remember
Objective: 16.1
