Explain the difference between rank-order stability of personality traits and mean-level change in personality traits.

Describe how writer Gail Sheehy’s approach in her second book New Passages differed from that in her first book Passages.

Describe two ways in which the experience of identity development may vary according to a person’s ethnicity.

Describe two reasons why the number of adults identifying as Christian has decreased over the last fifty years.

Identify one potential challenge and one potential benefit of a cross-ethnic friendship.

Describe what “intergenerational solidarity” means in family relationships.

Identify two reasons why young adults in rural areas might decide not to attend college.

Identify one predictor and one outcome each for rapid college completers and marginal college goers.

Identity one contextual factor and one behavior that predicts a trajectory to a “good job.”

Identify the characteristics of intimate relationships outlined by Sharabany, and describe the positive outcomes of secure attachment in a romantic relationship.

Contrast the “high-intensity” and “happy independent” relationship typologies identified by Beckmeyer and Jamison.

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?