PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Premarital Sex, Industrial Revolution, Cell Division
11 Dec 2015
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When our mothers were our age, they were engaged Under duress, i will admit that this is a pretty exciting time. Sometimes, when i look out across the wide expanse that is my future, i can see beyond the void. I realize that having nothing ahead to count on means i now have to count on myself; that having no direction means forging one of my own. Definition of adulthood has changed over time. Stage: often have a set start point (ex. age or psychological property) and may have a fixed end point; big transitional phase (ex. coming of age); associate with labels (children, adult) Process: more gradual, ongoing, not necessarily a set time frame. Rise of emerging adulthood ( is thirty the new twenty? ) Period of challenges and decisions: college or work, marriage or dating? o o. Crises will be covered in the section on moral development (chp. Our ideas about childhood also change: ex.
