HDF 304 Exam 1.1 questions and
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Other names for Human Development and Family Sciences? - correct answer ✔✔-Human
Development and Family Studies
-Child and Family Studies
-Family Studies and Human Development
What is HDFS? - correct answer ✔✔-Human development is the study of how humans change
across the lifespan
-Family sciences is the study of family formation, family processes, and family functions
-these both influence each other
-these occur in a variety of contexts: historical, political, economic, and sociological
-our understanding of all of this will improve the lives of individuals and society
-the best way to understand development and families is to study them using best science
practices
History of HDFS - correct answer ✔✔-originally part of Home Economics
-the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890
-est. land grant colleges in each state
-each asked to est. an agricultural school
-education not just for running a farm, but also a household
-consumer science, parenting, childhood education, nutrition, family economics, clothing,
textiles, and interior design
School of Human Ecology - correct answer ✔✔-consumer science
, -parenting
-childhood education
-nutrition
-family economics
-clothing, textiles, and interior design
-HDFS
-nutrition
public health
textiles and apparel
what does HDFS do? - correct answer ✔✔-family life specialist
-work in advocacy
-counseling
-education: teaching, administration, policy
-health professions
-graduate school in HDFS or related field
Mesosystem influence - correct answer ✔✔members of your immediate system interact with
each other to affect your development (ex. parents fighting and how it affects you)
microsystem influence - correct answer ✔✔the people closest to us and how they interact with
is (ex. parents, siblings, friends)
exosystem influence - correct answer ✔✔how the way that people in your microsystem interact
with people in the outside world (macrosystem) and it in turn affects you and your relationships
(ex. husband is stressed out from job because of his boss, has to work overtime, angry when he
gets home, and it affects your relationship with him)
answers graded A+
Other names for Human Development and Family Sciences? - correct answer ✔✔-Human
Development and Family Studies
-Child and Family Studies
-Family Studies and Human Development
What is HDFS? - correct answer ✔✔-Human development is the study of how humans change
across the lifespan
-Family sciences is the study of family formation, family processes, and family functions
-these both influence each other
-these occur in a variety of contexts: historical, political, economic, and sociological
-our understanding of all of this will improve the lives of individuals and society
-the best way to understand development and families is to study them using best science
practices
History of HDFS - correct answer ✔✔-originally part of Home Economics
-the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890
-est. land grant colleges in each state
-each asked to est. an agricultural school
-education not just for running a farm, but also a household
-consumer science, parenting, childhood education, nutrition, family economics, clothing,
textiles, and interior design
School of Human Ecology - correct answer ✔✔-consumer science
, -parenting
-childhood education
-nutrition
-family economics
-clothing, textiles, and interior design
-HDFS
-nutrition
public health
textiles and apparel
what does HDFS do? - correct answer ✔✔-family life specialist
-work in advocacy
-counseling
-education: teaching, administration, policy
-health professions
-graduate school in HDFS or related field
Mesosystem influence - correct answer ✔✔members of your immediate system interact with
each other to affect your development (ex. parents fighting and how it affects you)
microsystem influence - correct answer ✔✔the people closest to us and how they interact with
is (ex. parents, siblings, friends)
exosystem influence - correct answer ✔✔how the way that people in your microsystem interact
with people in the outside world (macrosystem) and it in turn affects you and your relationships
(ex. husband is stressed out from job because of his boss, has to work overtime, angry when he
gets home, and it affects your relationship with him)
