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11. Chase is a college sophomore, who is able to remember facts as they pertain to larger ideas, can compare different viewpoints, and understands that many ideas have merit. However, he has come to believe that “everything is so relative” in life that there is not anything in particular to follow. According to Perry, Chase is exhibiting  a. relativism. b. commitments in relativism. c. crystallization. d. dualism. 12. ____________ intelligence grows with education and experience and can continue to increase from early to middle adulthood and even beyond. a  Inductive b. Deductive c. Crystallized d. Fluid 13. Mitzi is a teenager who is struggling with the process of searching for a set of values to guide her throughout life. According to Erik Erikson, Mitzi is in which of his psychosocial stages? a. identity versus role confusion b. integrity versus despair c. industry versus inferiority d. initiative versus guilt 14. The __________ is the idea that adult life consists of roughly 25-year eras with five-to eight-year transitions between eras.               a. seasons of adulthood b. time-of-events model c. social clock theory d. life-span theory of control. 15. Although Matt is only in his 20s, he wants to make sure he and his family have “enough” money to live comfortable after he retires, so he begins contributing to a retirement account as soon as he starts his first “real” job after college graduation. According to Heckhausen’s and Schulz’s life-span theory of control, Matt is using ________ control in order to achieve his goal. a. emotion-focused b. pragmatic c. primary d. secondary 16. A study of Japanese and American women found that Japanese women are more likely to define themselves by mentioning ___________, while American women are more likely to mention ___________. a. the immediate situation; social membership. b. psychological attributes; the immediate situation. c. psychological attributes; physical attributes. d. social membership; psychological attributes. 17. Jessica envisions herself married to Eddie and having three children and a job as a nurse. These images of what she might be in the future are referred to as a. self-projections. b. possible selves. c. actualized selves. d. self-promotions. 18. When people retire from work, they must replace an identity defined by their job with a new identity based on characteristics that have not been the focus of their attention, such as hobbies or being more family-oriented. According to Whitbourne, these retired persons are using the process of a. identity accommodation. b. identity assimilation. c. self-actualization. d. incongruence. 19. Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding loneliness? a. If one is socially active, one will not feel lonely. b. Loneliness can stem from a sense of not belonging to one’s immediate environment. c. Loneliness stems from inadequacies in the number or the quality of one’s social relationships. d. The feeling of loneliness is most common among adolescents and adults in their early 20s. 20. In order to promote justice for all races, Martin Luther King engaged in civil disobedience. He exhibited the moral reasoning of which of Kohlberg’s stages? a. social contract orientation b. the morality of self-sacrifice c. “good boy-nice girl orientation” d. the stage of universal ethical principles