Project Description: For this project, you will be writing your own “Cliff’s Not

Project Description: For this project, you will be writing your own “Cliff’s Notes” booklet for your text book. Cliff Notes pamphlets summarize the important aspects of larger literary works, so students can quickly get the gist of the text without having to read the entire book. Using the chapters as headings and the bullets below as sub-headings, summarize what your textbook tells you about each topic as if you were trying to tell another student the gist of what the textbook says about that topic, so they don’t have to read the textbook.

Project Requirements:

Ch. 11

• Defining Puberty
• Physical Changes & the Role of Hormones During Puberty
• Piaget’s Formal Operational Stage
• The Information Processing Model
• Effects of Brain Related Changes on Cognition

Ch. 12

• Erikson’s Identity vs. Role Confusion
• James Marcia’s: Identity Development
• Development of romantic relationships
• Trends Associated with Suicide & Delinquency

Ch. 13

• Issues in Transitioning into College
• Trends Associated with Sex
• Trends Associated with Substance Abuse
• Trends Associated with Physical Ability
• Developmental Changes in Careers

Ch. 14

• Trends Associated with Temperament & Attachment
• Triangular Theory of Love
• Trends of Love, Cohabitating, & Marriage

Ch. 15

• Losses in Middle Age
• Age Identity
• Issues Associated with Fertility
• Issues with Processing Speed

Ch. 16

• Generativity vs. Stagnation
• Levinson’s Season of a Man’s Life
• Findings from the Mills College Study
• Findings from the Lachman’s Studies

Ch. 17

• Trends Life expectancy
• Theories of Aging
• Physical Changes in the Body
• Physical Changes in the Brain
• Physical Changes in the Sensory Organs

Ch. 18

• Baltes’ Understanding of Cognition
• Cognitive Processing in Late adulthood
• Work & Retirement

Ch. 19

• Socioemotional Selectivity Theory
• Define Ageism

Ch. 20

• Planning Death
• Grief