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Adults who can't find work are _____ percent more likely to be depressed than other people their age.


A) 40
B) 50
C) 60
D) 70

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For adults, marriage rates are declining and _____ rates are increasing.

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A middle-aged woman who has her mother, her adult children, and their young children come to her home for monthly family dinners is serving as a(n) _____.

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Ronald seems to thrive on changing jobs, is artistic, and likes to try new things. He would be rated high on the personality dimension called _____.


A) extroversion
B) openness
C) neuroticism
D) sociability

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Same-sex couples often marry for psychic well-being, not for _____ benefits.

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Couples increasingly _____ their lives over time, with marital satisfaction connected to what they have achieved together and how happy the other one is.

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Which statement about personality is accurate?


A) There is only empirical evidence that personality is innate.
B) Genes are the only influence on adult personality.
C) Adult personality can be influenced by context.
D) Geography does not influence adult personality.

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Fifty years ago, the U.S. civilian labor force was 74 percent male and 89 percent non-Hispanic White.

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What is Erikson's first stage of adulthood?


A) trust versus mistrust
B) intimacy versus isolation
C) integrity versus despair
D) industry versus inferiority

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Although Erikson's stages of psychosocial development are sequential, the search for identity that begins in the stage of identity versus role confusion _____.


A) can linger long past the teenage years
B) ends with the stage of intimacy versus isolation
C) ends with the stage of generativity versus stagnation
D) comes to fruition only after the stage of integrity versus despair

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_____ are accepted as part of a family to which they have no genetic or legal relationship.

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With unemployment, psychological needs are unmet, which increases the rate of domestic abuse, substance use disorder, _____, and many other social and mental health problems.

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According to Erikson, when individuals are productive in an unselfish and caring way, they are demonstrating _____.


A) autonomy
B) generativity
C) diffusion
D) altruism

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What proportion of all first marriages end in divorce?


A) one-eighth
B) one-third
C) two-thirds
D) three-quarters

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Chris is high in extroversion and therefore will probably _____.

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Common ways to be generative include caregiving, employment, and _____.


A) goal-setting exercises
B) financial security
C) parenthood
D) travel

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As adults age, their friendships tend to _____.

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Describe Erikson's psychosocial stage of generativity versus stagnation. Indicate the three most common ways that adults satisfy their need to be generative.

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Most adoptions today are "open"; that is, the adopted child is aware that the biological mother released him or her to the adoptive parents.

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Research finds that women typically suffer from divorce more than men do, but that many divorced men experience _____.


A) difficulty meeting new women
B) increased loneliness
C) unresolved anger over the breakup
D) increased financial challenges

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