1. Compare and contrast the transition to college with the transition to middle school. 2. Is young adulthood better characterized as a period of health-improving lifestyles or health-impairing lifestyles?

3. Does research support the following two statements: “Single Americans are obsessed with sex” and “Sexual orientation is biologically determined”?

4. Give at least three examples of coerced sexual activity, and discuss whether the consequences for the victim are similar or different in each case.

5. Compare and contrast two approaches to adult cognitive development.

What does the sociological imagination refer to?

Burns are devastating and debilitating because of loss of fluids and electrolytes from the body. how do physicians estimate the extent of burn damage associated with such dangerous fluid loss?

Which of the following best reflects what we know about how the flu virus moves between species? a) the flu virus in a pig is mutated and replicated in alternate arrangements so that humans who eat the pig products can be infected.b) a flu virus from a human epidemic or pandemic infects birds; the birds replicate the virus differently and then pass it back to humans.c) an influenza virus gains new sequences of dna from another virus, such as a herpesvirus; this enables it to be transmitted to a human host.d) an animal such as a pig is infected with more than one virus, genetic recombination occurs, the new virus mutates, the virus is passed to a new species such as a bird, and the virus mutates again and can now be transmitted to humans.