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Quiz #1: 1. ___________ is the time between 18 and 25 years old during which a person is too old to be adolescent yet not quite independent enough to be a full-fledged adult. a. Extended adolescence b. Semi-adulthood c. College-age dependents d. Emerging adulthood 2. Basal metabolism is the a. number of calories a resting body needs to survive. b. number of calories consumed on an average day. c. highest number of calories consumed during peak energy use. d. number of calories utilized by age, weight, and height on an average day. 3. All adults eventually develop some degree of ________, a condition in which close objects appear blurry. a. astigmatism b. macular degeneration c. presbyopia d. myopia 4. Which of the following is FALSE regarding the effects of gender and aging on the human sexual process? a. Women arouse more slowly than men and are less often satisfied by intercourse alone. b. Both men and women tend to reach their sexual peaks between age 22 and 27 years of age. c. Beginning about age 30, testosterone levels decline at a rate of about one percent each year for men. d. Sexual slowing becomes more noticeable for most healthy men by 50 years and beyond. 5. Progressive motility refers to the ability of a. sperm to move forward quickly and efficiently. b. the egg cell to move freely down the fallopian tube. c. children to propel themselves in an upright position unaided. d. elderly individuals to walk aided, then, unaided after the repair of hip fractures. 6. April is 50 years old and has not had a menstrual period for one year. April has reached    a. perimenopause. b. menopause. c. the refractory period. d. the plateau phase. 7. Tony and Lane will be using an assisted reproductive method in which Lane will initially go through in vitro fertilization followed by the transfer of their embryo into a fallopian tube. This procedure is known as a. gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT). b. zygote intrafallopian transfer (ZIFT). c. intracytoplasmic sperm injection (VCSI). d. artificial insemination (AI). 8. During the ___________ stage, adolescents begin to think abstractly and consider multiple possibilities. a. formal operational b. conventional c. concrete operational d. postconventional 9. You are planning to buy a car. In making your decision, you will probably consider the pros and cons of purchasing a new or used car or a specific make and model of car, including gas mileage, insurance, maintenance, and impact on your budget (to name a few).You are using ________ reasoning in making your decision. a. intuitive b. convergent c. inductive d. dialectical 10. Postformal thought a. is qualitatively similar to formal operational thought. b. requires one to come to a single correct answer that is discovered by systematically applying rules or procedures. c. involves the realization that the search for knowledge is never ending. d. is characterized by all of these.