| achieved identity | A sense of one's self based on personal effort and commitment.
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| androgyny | Gender-role identification that allows expression of both male and female gender roles.
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| ascribed identity | A sense of one's self based on determination of others, not the individual.
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| cholesterol | Substance in the blood that can adhere to the walls of the blood vessels, restricting blood flow and causing strokes and heart attacks.
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| cohabitation | A living arrangement in which unmarried partners share a residence and personal assets and sometimes have a child.
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| date rape | Coercive sexual activity between a victim and an offender who is known or an acquaintance.
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| dual-career family | Family in which both partners work, usually full time.
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| emerging adulthood | Transition from adolescence to adulthood (approximately ages 18 to 25 years) that includes exploration and experimentation.
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| feminist movement | A social and political movement that seeks to establish equality for women in all aspects of life.
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| gender role | Culturally defined expectations about how females and males should act.
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| hazing | The practice of initiating individuals into group membership through arduous and demeaning tasks.
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| individuation | Refers to our developing a separate and special personality, derived less and less from our parents and teachers and more from our own behavior.
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| intimacy | Erikson's stage that represents the ability to relate one's deepest hopes and fears to another person and to accept another's need for intimacy in turn.
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| mentoring | The act of assisting another, usually younger, person with his or her work or life tasks.
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| novice phase | Levinson's phase of human development that captures the early adult transition, entering the adult world, and the age 30 transition.
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| organ reserve | The part of the total capacity of our body's organs that we do not normally need to use.
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| postformal thought | A proposed cognitive development stage after Piaget's formal operations in which people acknowledge the relativistic nature of problems and answers.
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| rape | Forced sexual intercourse when a person does not consent.
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| sexual harassment | Unwelcome sexual advances, such as repeated requests for sexual favors, or other comments or physical contact that lead to a very difficult work or other environment for the victim.
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| sexual identity | How one thinks of oneself in terms of sexual and romantic attraction, linked to genetic traits/physical characteristics of male and female.
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| validation | Fromm's term for the reciprocal sharing of deep secrets and feelings that allows people to feel loved and accepted.
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