Homework Sixteen

1.  Only about 50% of American youth who enroll in college earn their degree by age 25.
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2.  For young adults in modern America the preferred way of entering into a committed intimate partnership is to choose what type of living arrangements.  

3. Many young adults enter a period of excitement and personal expansion as they explore the emergence of adulthood.  For many low SES adults this period may be more difficult because of early parenthood, inadequate schooling, or lack of vocational training.  They may have a floundering period marked by
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4. Achieving is the major personality task of early adulthood according to Erikson's theory.

5 Relativistic thinking is the belief that there are many possible truths and each is relative to a particular context.
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6. According to the textbook, successful marriage is marked by good communication and the recognition that the escalation of negative emotion is present in all marriages.
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7.  The experience of distress due to loneliness peaks in what age range ? (look carefully at the tables in the chapter to find this information).