Lifespan perspective

Moral development – Kohlberg – preconventional, conventional, postconventional

Research on theory and Gilligan’s approach

Adolescence

Physical development (puberty) – early, on-line, late, physical changes (adolescent growth spurt, secondary sexual characteristics)

Sexuality and Teen pregnancy – risk factors, consequences for teen mothers and fathers

Identity vs. role confusion (moratorium, foreclosure, identity diffusion)

Emotional and social development – invincibility fallacy, naïve idealism, personal fable, adolescence egocentrism, peers and parenting, interactions with the family

Cognitive development

Life satisfaction

College attendance – and development, traditional vs. nontraditional students, gender race and college completion

Early adulthood – intimacy vs. isolation, cognitive abilities, adopt a dream

Marriage and divorce – reasons for success, singles

Parenthood, Reinke’s life course for women

Middle adulthood – generativity vs. stagnation, midlife transition, menopause, empty-nest syndrome

Older adults – physical changes, sex, integrity vs. despair, cognitive changes (fluid vs. crystallized memory)

Alzheimer’s disease – neurofibrillary tangles, plaques

Cultural differences

Death and dying – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance

Decisions about death, hospice, bereavement