Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, the student should be able to complete the following goals:

1

List types of initiation activities in the United States.

2

Discuss the role of self-defined initiation rites such as in delinquency, the counterculture, and organized sports.

3

Discuss how early adulthood signifies the peak in physical development.

4

Discuss organ reserve and its role in affecting the perception of abilities as we age.

5

Explore the effect of lifestyle choices, such as food, alcohol, tobacco use, and physical fitness.

6

List Perry's nine stages of intellectual/ethical development, and identify ways an individual may become delayed or deflected in this developmental sequence.

7

State the five perspectives on women's knowledge found by Belenky, contrasting women's and men's "ways of knowing."

8

Explore the phenomenon of the dual-career family.

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