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Human Development Across the Lifespan, 5/e
John S. Dacey, Boston College
John F. Travers, Boston College
Early Adulthood
Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood

Outline

  1. Initiation into adulthood
    1. The transition to adulthood in the United States
      1. Types of initiation activities in the United States
        1. Religious
        2. Sexual
        3. Social
        4. Educational
        5. Economic
    2. Implications of the lack of an initiation ceremony
      1. Attempts to include initiation rites in American life
        1. Delinquency
        2. Counterculture
        3. Sports
      2. Ascribed versus achieved identity
  2. Physical development
    1. The peak is reached
      1. Summary of physical development in early adulthood
      2. Declines in various human functional capacities with age
    2. Organ reserve
    3. The effect of lifestyle on health
      1. Choices of foods
        1. Link between heart disease and cholesterol
        2. Link between diet and certain types of cancer
        3. Obesity
      2. Use of alcohol
        1. Prevalence
        2. Health problems associated with alcoholism
      3. Use of tobacco
        1. Prevalence
        2. Health problems associated with tobacco use
        3. Personality types of smokers versus nonsmokers
        4. Reasons for smoking
        5. Effects of passive smoking
      4. Physical fitness
        1. Health benefits of physical fitness
  3. Cognitive development
    1. Intellectual/ethical development
      1. Perry's nine stages divided into three broad categories
        1. Dualism
        2. Relativism
        3. Commitment
      2. Three delays or deflections
        1. Temporizing
        2. Escape
        3. Retreat
    2. "Women's ways of knowing"
      1. Silence
      2. Received knowledge
      3. Subjective knowledge
      4. Procedural knowledge
      5. Constructed knowledge
  4. Patterns of work
    1. The phenomenon of the dual-career family
      1. Women are still considered responsible for the maintenance of the family
      2. The relationship among work factors and job satisfaction for women
      3. Multiple roles in dual-career families
      4. Men's psychological adjustment to the increased role of wives as providers for the family








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