Chapter Six Terms - Adolescence

Question 1

Actual Self

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is a person’s perception of the self as it is, contrasted with the possible self.

Question 2

Possible Selves

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is a person’s conception of the self as it potentially may be and it may include both an ideal self and a feared self

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Ideal Self

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is the person you would like to be

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Feared Self

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is the person you are afraid of becoming

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False Self

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is the self a person presents to other while realizing that it does not represent what he or she is actually thinking and feeling

Question 6

Self-Esteem

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is a person’s overall sense of worth and well-being

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Self-Image

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is a person’s evaluation of his or her qualities and relations with others (Closely related to self-esteem)

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Self-Concept

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is the persons’ view of themselves, usually including concrete characteristic as well as roles, relationships, and personality characteristics

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Self-Perception

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is a person’s view of his or her characteristic and abilities (Closely related to self-esteem

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Baseline Self-esteem

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is a person’s stable enduring sense of worth and well-being

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Barometric self-esteem

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is the fluctuating sense of worth and well-being people have as they respond to different thoughts, experience and interactions in the course of the day

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Response Bias

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is when on a questionnaire, the tendency to choose the same response for all items

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Internal Consistency

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is a statistical calculation that indicates the extent to which the different items in a scale or subscale are answered in a similar way

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Psychohistory

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is the psychological analysis of important historical figures

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Identity

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is individuals’ perceptions of their characteristics and abilities, their beliefs and values, their relations with others, and how their lives fit into the world around them

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Identity versus Identity confusion

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is the ability to establish who you are and how you fit into the world in a healthy way (Identity) compared to when you are not sure how you fit into the world (Identity confusion)

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Identifications

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is relationships formed with others, especially in childhood, in which love for another person leads one to want to be like that person

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Psychosocial Moratorium

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is Erikson’s term for a period during adolescence when adult responsibilities are postponed as young people try on various possible selves

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Negative identity

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is Erikson’s term for an identity based on what a person has seen portrayed as most undesirable or dangerous

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Identity Status Model

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is an approach to conceptualizing and researching identity development that classifies people into one of four identity categories such as foreclosure, diffusion, moratorium, and achievement

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Identity Crisis

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is Erikson’s term for the intense period of struggle that adolescents may experience in the course of forming an identity

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Identity Diffusion

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is when you do not care about your future or thinking about it now.

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Identity foreclosure

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is when you already know what you want to do without exploring other options and just have a mind set for this certain profession

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Identity Moratorium

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is when you explore many different possibility in life and do not commit to one as of yet

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Identity Achievement

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is after you have explored many different possibility and have decided on what you want to do

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Postmodern Identity

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is a conception of identity as complex and as highly variable across contexts and across time

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Intimacy versus Isolation

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is Erikson’s term for the central issue of young adulthood, in which persons face alternatives between committing themselves to another person in an intimate relationship or becoming isolated as a consequence of an inability to form an enduring intimate relationship

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Assimilation

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is the formation of an ethnic identity, the approach that involves leaving the ethnic culture behind and adapting he ways of the majority culture

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Marginality

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is when one’s reject one’s culture of origin but also feels rejected by the majority culture

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Separation

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is only associating with your ethnic group and rejecting the ways of the majority culture

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Biculturalism

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is looking at both of your cultures in a good way and embracing both of them

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Hybrid Identity

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is an identity that integrates elements of various cultures

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Social Loneliness

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is the condition that occurs when people feel that they lack a sufficient number of social contacts and relationships

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Emotional Loneliness

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is a condition that occurs when people feel that the relationships they have lack sufficient closeness and intimacy