PSYC 2240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Facial Hair, Ethnography, Filial Piety
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Instead, less farming and more industrialized, left small towns in late teens to growing cities: young people regarded as social problem . Age of adolescence (1890-1920: adolescent started becoming a widely used term. Were before called youth or young men and women. Adapt a more independent lifestyle: emerging adulthood: focus on self and develop knowledge, skill, and self-understanding; learn to make independent decisions, age of possibilities where many different futures remain possible, usa. 96% i am very sure someday i will get to where i want to be in life this optimism exists in other countries as well. Most emerging adults have the subjective feeling of being in a transitional period of life: emerging adulthood does not exist in all cultures. Cultures vary widely in the ages that young people are expected to enter full adulthood and take on adult responsibilities.