ch.4

Question 1

bicultural identity

Answer 1

identity formation that occurs when adolescents identify in some ways with their ethnic group and in other ways with the majority culture

Question 2

big five factors of personality

Answer 2

openness o experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neurotisism (emotional instability)

Question 3

commitment

Answer 3

part of identity development in which adolescents show a personal investment in what they are going to do

Question 4

connectedness

Answer 4

important element in adolescent identity development.

two dimensions: mutuality (sensitivity to and respect for other views); permeability (openness to others views)

Question 5

crisis

Answer 5

period of identity development during which adolescent is choosing among meaningful alternatives

Question 6

difficult child

Answer 6

child who reacts negatively to many situations and is slow to accept new experiences

Question 7

easy child

Answer 7

generally is in a positive mood, quickly establishes regular routines, and adapts easily to new experiences

Question 8

emotion

Answer 8

feeling, or affect, that occurs when a person is in state or interaction that is important to individual, especially their well being

Question 9

ethnic identity

Answer 9

enduring, basic aspect of self that includes sense of membership in an ethnic group and attitudes and feelings related to that membership

Question 10

goodness of fit

Answer 10

match between individuals temperament style and environmental demands faced by individual

Question 11

identity

Answer 11

who a person believes he or she is, representing a synthesis and integration of self understanding

Question 12

identity achievement

Answer 12

Marcias term for adolescent who has undergone identity crisis and made commitment

Question 13

identity diffusion

Answer 13

Marcias term for state adolescents are in when they have not yet experienced an identity crisis or made any commitments

Question 14

identity foreclosure

Answer 14

Marcias term for state adolescents are in when they have made commitment but have not experienced identity crisis.

Question 15

identity moratorium

Answer 15

Marcias term for state of adolescents who are in midst of identity crisis but who have not made clear commitment to identity

Question 16

identity v identity confustion

Answer 16

Eriksons fifth dev. stage
as adolescents confronted with new roles, they enter psychosocial moratorium
role experimentation

Question 17

individuality

Answer 17

important element in adolescent identity dev.
consists of two dimensions: self assertion (ability to have and communicate point of view); seperateness (use of communication patterns to express how one in diff from others)

Question 18

intimacy v isolation

Answer 18

Eriksons sixth stage
early adulthood
optimal sequence is develop positive identity before negotiating intimacy v isolation

Question 19

narcissism

Answer 19

self centered and self concerned approach toward others

Question 20

optimism

Answer 20

having positive outlook on future and minimizing problems

Question 21

personality

Answer 21

enduring personal characteristics of individuals

Question 22

perspective taking

Answer 22

ability to assume another persons perspective and understand his or her thoughts and feelings

Question 23

possible self

Answer 23

what individuals might become, what they would like to become, and what they are afraid of becoming

Question 24

psychosocial moratorium

Answer 24

Eriksons term for gap btwn childhood security and adult autonomy that adolescents experience as part of their identity exploration

Question 25

self

Answer 25

all of the characteristics of a person

Question 26

Marcias four identity statuses

Answer 26

diffused, foreclosed, moratorium, achieved

combo of crisis and commitment yields each