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Lifespan Development

Check Your Understanding Questions

Lifespan DevelopmentCheck Your Understanding Questions

Check Your Understanding Questions

16 .
Explain the difference between rank-order stability of personality traits and mean-level change in personality traits.
17 .
Describe how writer Gail Sheehy’s approach in her second book New Passages differed from that in her first book Passages.
18 .
Describe two ways in which the experience of identity development may vary according to a person’s ethnicity.
19 .
Describe two reasons why the number of adults identifying as Christian has decreased over the last fifty years.
20 .
Identify one potential challenge and one potential benefit of a cross-ethnic friendship.
21 .
Describe what “intergenerational solidarity” means in family relationships.
22 .
Identify two reasons why young adults in rural areas might decide not to attend college.
23 .
Identify one predictor and one outcome each for rapid college completers and marginal college goers.
24 .
Identity one contextual factor and one behavior that predicts a trajectory to a “good job.”
25 .
Identify the characteristics of intimate relationships outlined by Sharabany, and describe the positive outcomes of secure attachment in a romantic relationship.
26 .
Contrast the “high-intensity” and “happy independent” relationship typologies identified by Beckmeyer and Jamison.
27 .
Identify three in-person settings where young adults say they have the best chance of meeting a long-term romantic partner. What do these settings have in common, and why do you think young adults feel they have the most potential for finding long-term romantic connections?
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