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Explain the difference between rank-order stability of personality traits and mean-level change in personality traits.
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Describe how writer Gail Sheehy’s approach in her second book New Passages differed from that in her first book Passages.
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Describe two ways in which the experience of identity development may vary according to a person’s ethnicity.
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Describe two reasons why the number of adults identifying as Christian has decreased over the last fifty years.
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Identify one potential challenge and one potential benefit of a cross-ethnic friendship.
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Describe what “intergenerational solidarity” means in family relationships.
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Identify two reasons why young adults in rural areas might decide not to attend college.
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Identify one predictor and one outcome each for rapid college completers and marginal college goers.
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Identity one contextual factor and one behavior that predicts a trajectory to a “good job.”
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Identify the characteristics of intimate relationships outlined by Sharabany, and describe the positive outcomes of secure attachment in a romantic relationship.
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Contrast the “high-intensity” and “happy independent” relationship typologies identified by Beckmeyer and Jamison.
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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?