HDF 371- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 78 pages long!)

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Human Development and Family Sciences
• Course: HDF 371
• Professor: F Varner

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Class response: puberty, ages 11 to 13, age 10, could be considered a spectrum when it begins. Class response: ages 18 to 20, could be a spectrum depending on experience, age 22, when you stop depending on anyone besides yourself, background, social, culture, rite of passage, marriage, legality. What are the words you would use to describe adolescence or the developmental period of adolescence: Class response: experimental, new, maturing, transitional, unstable, moody, awkward, privacy. Insecure: peer-focused, anxiety provoking, physical, peer pressure, coming of age, discovery. Adolescere = to grow up versus adultus = to have grown up. Typically defined as the second decade of life: 11% of the u. s. population is between 12 and 20. Co(cid:373)pli(cid:272)ated (cid:271)y i(cid:374)trodu(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of (cid:374)e(cid:449) (cid:862)periods of de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863: tweens, emerging adulthood. Industrial revolution: establishment of labor unions, end of child labor, decreased agrarian society/urbanization. In agricultural society, children were involved in labor at early age.