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Which statement about personality in emerging adulthood is true?

A) After the age of 12, personality is static.
B) Personality is dynamic, but only if individuals have achieved their identity.
C) Personality is not plastic.
D) Personality can change after adolescence.

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The average young adult holds one or two distinct jobs between ages 18 and 25.

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Bart is 21 years old and is not sure what kind of work he would like to do after college. Like many Americans his age, Bart has not yet developed a(n) _____ identity.

Which person is most likely to experience the strongest benefits from college?

Whereas Piaget focused on problem solving in child and adolescent cognitive development, postformal thought focuses on _____.

For most Western emerging adults, what is considered the primary prerequisite for marriage?

Describe the impact of the college experience on cognitive development. Discuss ways in which college has improved in recent years and ways in which it has become less effective.

Shaun has just taken a position as an emergency room nurse. He is likely to see _____.

Why are modern college students less likely to advance in their postformal thinking during their first two years of college than students from 20 years ago?

Young males have always experienced what demographers call a(n) _____ at about age 20.

Erik Erikson's sixth developmental crisis occurs during emerging adulthood and is known as intimacy versus independence.

Which is the more mature response to an identity crisis?

Jordan is a freshman in college right now. Based on recent research, we can expect that he may _____ over the next two years.

Intimacy is the desire for _____.

_____ is an arrangement in which an unmarried couple live together in a committed romantic relationship.

Makayla was a sophomore thriving in college when her father was laid off from his job. Even with financial aid, the family could no longer afford to send her to school, so she left to get a full-time job at a restaurant near the family home. This situation illustrates the _____ of families.

Generally, emerging adulthood is characterized by _____ health.

Health habits in emerging adulthood do not affect health in middle age.

In the United States today, a couple's first shared household is more likely to involve cohabitation, not marriage.

The worry that one's appearance or behavior will be misused to confirm another person's oversimplified, prejudiced attitude is referred to as _____.