Study Questions - Adolescence & Adulthood
Teenagers go to college to be with their boyfriends and girlfriends; they go because they can't think of anything else to do; they go because their parents want them to and sometimes because their parents don't want them to; they go to find themselves, or to find a husband, or to get away from home, and sometimes even to find out about the world in which they live." -- Harold Howe II
1. If you heard an adolescent discussing politics with her grandfather, what cognitive differences between them would you notice? 2. If you are beginning a long-term relationship, what two things should you and your partner do to ensure sucess? 3. What is different about the interactions of couples who are happy from those of couples who are unhappy? 4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having parents arrange marriages for their children.? 5. Of two people who are both 65, why might one seem much older and the other much younger?
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