PSY 658 Final Exam Questions And Correct
Revised Answers
Peer relationships - gender differences - answer✔✔-Girls: Emotional closeness more common;
focus on communal concerns; but may lead to more mulling over of problems, making these
friendships shorter duration than boys
-Boys: more often gather for an activity (sports and competitive games); focus on achievement
and status. Boys friendships quality more variable; masculine stereotypes thought to interfere
with these bonds
Early dating - answer✔✔-hormonal changes of puberty increase sexual interest
-recreation & achieving peer status early reasons for dating
-typically shallow, stereotyped
-culture, attachment, parental models all impact
-perhaps bc it's shallow and stereotyped, early dating is related to drug use, delinquency, poor
academic achievement -->combined w/uninvolved parenting & aggressive families, leads to
dating violence (10-20% physically/sexually abused by dating partners)
-better to stick with group activities at first
Erikson's Intimacy vs Isolation stage - answer✔✔-evident in young person's thoughts and
feelings about making a long-term commitment to an intimate partner and in close, mutually
gratifying friendships
-intimacy requires giving up some of independent self and redefine identity to include both
partners' values and interests
-identity moratorium negatively associated with fidelity and love
-with a sense of isolation, one hesitates to form close ties for fear of loss of one's own identity;
tend to compete rather than cooperate, not accept differences, feel threatened by getting too close
Romantic partners (early adulthood) - answer✔✔-people usually select partners who resemble
themselves in other ways: attitudes, personality, educational plans, intelligence, mental health,
physical attractiveness, height
What does pragmatic thought allow for - answer✔✔-Adulthood involves movement from
hypothetical to pragmatic thought, a structural advance where logic becomes a tool for solving
real-world problems
-Need to specialize motivates this change--must *accept contradictions* as part of existence and
develop ways of thinking that thrive on imperfection and compromise
From slides:
Change and context dependent principles rather than conformity and lack of context
Pragmatics of situation, emotional, and social factors rather than logic alone
Need life experience and cognitive maturity to make commitments and specialize
PLAN B -COMPROMISES in decision-making that include conflict and imperfections
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