PSYCH 290- FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH UPDATED 2025-
2026 STUDY QUIZ
Ages 18-25 - answer ✔✔-What age is the developmental stage of emerging adulthood?
25 - answer ✔✔-What age does maximum strength peak at typically?
18-24 year olds - answer ✔✔-What age group has better chronic health conditions?
The ratio between weight and height to determine whether or not a person is below, at, or above
normal weight - answer ✔✔-What is body mass index (BMI)?
Diseases - answer ✔✔-Why is death among emerging adulthood not common?
A person who spreads a disease - answer ✔✔-What is a vector?
The tendency of biological systems to maintain relatively constant conditions in the internal
environment while continuously interacting with and adjusting to changes originating within or outside
the system. - answer ✔✔-What is homeostatic tendency?
abstract thinking, objective forms of processing and expressing, and subjective forms of thinking. -
answer ✔✔-What is mature thought?
As more is understood about brain development after adolescence, it seems that the characteristics of
postformal thought are evident as the brain—in particular, the prefrontal context — matures. - answer
✔✔-Brain development in adolescence
, maladaptive when navigating adult life; where subjective thought involves an interaction between
abstract, objective forms of processing and expression. - answer ✔✔-What is purely objective thought?
is the most advanced cognitive process.• Involves ability to consider a thesis and its antithesis and arrive
at a synthesis• Includes being able to see the pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages, possibilities
and limitations• Is rare in adolescents; more often found in middle-aged people - answer ✔✔-What is
dialectical thinking?
Preparing a creative work as part of class assignment in her psychology course illustrates expectations
about an emerging adult's ability to engage in postformal thinking. - answer ✔✔-Example of an
emerging adult using post formal thinking
Couples who marry later in life often associated with achievement and post formal thought - answer
✔✔-Who is less likely to get a divorce?
Robert Sternberg (1988) described three distinct aspects of love.• Passion: An intense physical,
cognitive, and emotional onslaught characterized by excitement, ecstasy, and euphoria• Intimacy:
Knowing someone well; sharing secrets as well as sex• Commitment: Grows gradually through decisions
to be together, mutual caregiving, kept secrets, shared possessions, and forgiveness - answer ✔✔-
Robert Sternberg's three aspects of love
A popular term for parents who hover over their emerging adults, ready to swoop down if any problem
arises - answer ✔✔-Helicopter parents
Resolve the crisis of intimacy vs. relationship - answer ✔✔-According to Erikson, what does an emerging
adult need to do in order to have an established sense of identity?
An arrangement in which a couple lives together in a committed romantic relationship but is not
formally married - answer ✔✔-What is cohabitation?
may not allow children to learn to overcome obstacles on their own. - answer ✔✔-What is snowplow
parenting?
commitment - answer ✔✔-What is the aspect of love that is least present in emerging adulthood?
AND ANSWERS WITH UPDATED 2025-
2026 STUDY QUIZ
Ages 18-25 - answer ✔✔-What age is the developmental stage of emerging adulthood?
25 - answer ✔✔-What age does maximum strength peak at typically?
18-24 year olds - answer ✔✔-What age group has better chronic health conditions?
The ratio between weight and height to determine whether or not a person is below, at, or above
normal weight - answer ✔✔-What is body mass index (BMI)?
Diseases - answer ✔✔-Why is death among emerging adulthood not common?
A person who spreads a disease - answer ✔✔-What is a vector?
The tendency of biological systems to maintain relatively constant conditions in the internal
environment while continuously interacting with and adjusting to changes originating within or outside
the system. - answer ✔✔-What is homeostatic tendency?
abstract thinking, objective forms of processing and expressing, and subjective forms of thinking. -
answer ✔✔-What is mature thought?
As more is understood about brain development after adolescence, it seems that the characteristics of
postformal thought are evident as the brain—in particular, the prefrontal context — matures. - answer
✔✔-Brain development in adolescence
, maladaptive when navigating adult life; where subjective thought involves an interaction between
abstract, objective forms of processing and expression. - answer ✔✔-What is purely objective thought?
is the most advanced cognitive process.• Involves ability to consider a thesis and its antithesis and arrive
at a synthesis• Includes being able to see the pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages, possibilities
and limitations• Is rare in adolescents; more often found in middle-aged people - answer ✔✔-What is
dialectical thinking?
Preparing a creative work as part of class assignment in her psychology course illustrates expectations
about an emerging adult's ability to engage in postformal thinking. - answer ✔✔-Example of an
emerging adult using post formal thinking
Couples who marry later in life often associated with achievement and post formal thought - answer
✔✔-Who is less likely to get a divorce?
Robert Sternberg (1988) described three distinct aspects of love.• Passion: An intense physical,
cognitive, and emotional onslaught characterized by excitement, ecstasy, and euphoria• Intimacy:
Knowing someone well; sharing secrets as well as sex• Commitment: Grows gradually through decisions
to be together, mutual caregiving, kept secrets, shared possessions, and forgiveness - answer ✔✔-
Robert Sternberg's three aspects of love
A popular term for parents who hover over their emerging adults, ready to swoop down if any problem
arises - answer ✔✔-Helicopter parents
Resolve the crisis of intimacy vs. relationship - answer ✔✔-According to Erikson, what does an emerging
adult need to do in order to have an established sense of identity?
An arrangement in which a couple lives together in a committed romantic relationship but is not
formally married - answer ✔✔-What is cohabitation?
may not allow children to learn to overcome obstacles on their own. - answer ✔✔-What is snowplow
parenting?
commitment - answer ✔✔-What is the aspect of love that is least present in emerging adulthood?
