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CH. 11 Flashcards

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Lookism

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trap to get caught on overemphasis on the surface

-EX: Always smiling, but sad inside

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Adjustment for children of different cultures

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Ex: Hinduism

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Survey

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a questionare

-Social Desirability Bias

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Social Desirability Bias

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what people say, isn’t always what they will do

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Qualitative Research

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Ex: Interview

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Narrative Identity

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to tell your life story ing our head

- not until adolescence

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Unwanted Identity

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Brene Brown
-qualitative
-scared to speak of what they do because of feeling ashamed
-labels
Ex: Saying immigrants come to US & take all jobs

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Brene Brown

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-unwanted identity

Live in a culture where people are going to label you for what you are

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Landscape = changes in:

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  1. Self-esteem
  2. Self-concept
  3. Identity
  4. Personality
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Self-esteem

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very broad & emotional

  • feel during situations
  • fluctuates across the life span
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Self-concept

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very specific

  • Ex: academics, church, sports, family, work
  • adolescence: more abstract
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Self-understanding

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also called Identity Achievement

  • broad
  • how you describe yourself
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Personality

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-stage models
-many parts of self
EX: Are you consciousness
- enduring & identity
-less likely to change as you get older

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Gender Differences

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in self-esteem emerge by early adolescence

  • Men = higher
  • Women = lower
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To enhance self-esteem

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inductive methods
- not logic, offering an explanation
-not power-assertive
EX: yelling to get point across
-avoid labels
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Self-Regulation

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the ability to control oneself

  • includes self-generation and cognitive monitoring of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to reach a goal
  • better achievers and more satisfied
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Self-Control

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increases in early adulthood into middle adult years

-decline in perceived self-control of health and cognitive functioning

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Selection

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means focus

  • not multi-task
  • reduction in performance in most life domains
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Optimization

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do best you can to get peak performance

- EX: Elderly = jigsaw puzzles & exercise

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Compensation

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back up and do things differently to require a lack of skill

-Ex: Slowed down music to make people be able to cope

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Narrative Identity

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Adolescence

  • Emerging Adulthood
  • Adulthood
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Newer models

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integrating throughout our lives

-autonomy and connectedness

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Older models

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independence and separation

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Separateness

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individuality

  • say point of view in conflicting point of view
  • not agreeing with someone but speak up about it
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Splitting

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tunnel vision

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Self-esteem

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> 20’s
levels off in 30’s
rises in 50’s & 60’s
< 70’s & 80’s

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Connectedness

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  1. ) mutuality = don’t agree but respect their point of view

2. ) permeability = open to a new point of view

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Identity Development

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Erik Erikson = 5th stage of Psychosocial Personality Development

  • at adolescence
  • exploration/experimentation = how to identify identity
  • fidelity = essential; finding a purpose/meaning
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James Marcia

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4 different identity statuses
- MAMA cycle
-student of Erikson & bothered by his theory
2 key dimensions:
1.) Crisis
2.) Commitment
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Crisis

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period of identity development during which individuals explores alternatives
-turning point in own life
-wake up call
EX: being arrested

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Commitment

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personal investment in identity

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4 statuses:

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  1. ) Identity diffusion
  2. ) Identity foreclosure
  3. ) Identity moratorium
  4. ) Identity achievement
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Identity diffusion

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confusion

  • Ex: Gangs
  • crisis = no
  • commitment = no
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Identity foreclosure

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makes commitment but never questions own identity

  • Ex: Having a certain job because your parents said so
  • crisis = no
  • commitment = yes
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Identity moratorium

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healthy later identity statuses

  • who cares
  • crisis = yes
  • commitment = no
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Identity achievement

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crisis = yes
commitment = yes
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Personality

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enduring personal characteristics

  • trait theories
  • five big factors: OCEAN
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Traits

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ways to describe a person by behaviors

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Big Five Factors of Personality

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OCEAN = approach to personality development

  1. ) Openness
  2. ) Conscientiousness
  3. ) Extraversion
  4. ) Agreeableness
  5. ) Neuroticism
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Openness

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  • imaginative or practical

- independent or conforming

41
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Conscientiousness

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most important

  • organized or disorganized
  • careful or careless
  • disciplined or impulsive
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Extraversion

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  • sociable
  • fun-loving
  • affectionate
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Agreeableness

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  • soft-hearted
  • trusting
  • helpful
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Neuroticism

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2nd important

  • calm or anxious
  • secure or insecure
  • self-satisfied or self-pitying
45
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Big Five Factors: Adulthood

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emotional stability, extraversion, openness, and agreeableness lower in early adulthood
-peaks between 40-60
-decreases in late adulthood
+Conscientiousness = continues to increase

46
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George Vaillant

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longitudinal study
+happy-well
+sad-sick
+dead

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Generativity

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adults desire to leave a legacy of themselves on future generations

  • wanting to give to other people
  • Ex: having kids
  • Ex: doing something to help the community
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Stagnation

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an individual senses that he/she has done nothing for future generations

49
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Life events approach

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focuses on events and how we adapt to a situation

EX: Football players with child abuse

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The Imposter Syndrome

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someone quietly inside head says I’m a fake because it’s not good enough

  • wanting to be perfect with everything
  • Ex: Becomes nurse but feels like a failure because he didn’t get the highest grades he wanted
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To Counteract: The Imposter Syndrome

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  • recognize the benefits
  • helps us avoid complacency
  • adds source of strength
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Coherence

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I can pull it together

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