In this chapter, students should learn:

• the leading causes of death, and the major health risks for older adolescents

• how their fitness and well-being is enhanced through exercise and sports

• how adolescents think about people and relationships

• the ways that adolescents reason about moral issues and how moral development can be promoted in adolescence

• how adolescents think about politics and religion

• how the high school experience changes the ways that adolescents think about themselves and their abilities

• how girls and boys differ in their cognitive abilities and achievement in school

• who drops out of school and the consequences associated with dropping out of school

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