Deck 1 Flashcards
Identity Diffusion
A state of James Marcia’s identity status where an adolescent does not have a sense of having choices; no commitment has been made or attempted.
Identity Foreclosure
a state of James Marcia’s identity status where the adolescent seems willing to commit to some relevant roles, values or goals for the future but has not yet experienced an indentity crisis, thus tends to conform to the expectations of others and not explore a range of options
Identity Moratorium
a state of James Marcia’s identity status where the adolescent is in a crisis, exploring various commitments is ready to make choices but has not made a commitment to a choice.
Identity Achievement
a state of James Marcia’s identity status where the adolescent has gone through an identity crisis and has made a commitment to a sense of identity.
Imaginary Audience
an adolescent belief that others are aware of their appearance and behavior and paying attention to them at all times.
Personal Fable
An adolescent belief in his or her own sense of uniqueness, attributing to a sense of risk taking and that no one understands their specific experiences
Adolescent Rebellion
a theoretical concept that the “storm and stress†of adolescence development results in major discord in adolescents. Largely unfounded; about 1 in 5 adolescents experience significant distress in development.
Harry Harlow
Worked with rhesus monkeys and focused his research on attachment studies. Harlow removed infant monkeys from their mothers and placed them on either a cloth mother or wire mother substitute. He found that the infant monkeys stayed close the cloth monkey for perceived comfort over the wire mother, which provided nourishment.
Konrad Lorenz
studied imprinting in birds and found that birds will bond with the first moving thing they see upon birth.
Primary Circular Reaction
Infant behavior (such as moving hands or feet) that is almost exclusively focused on the infant’s body and body movements and is repeated.
Secondary Circular Reaction
Infant behavior that involves the child and another item or person. The behavior is no longer exclusive to the infant’s body (throwing a toy).
Tertiary Circular Reaction
Infant behavior that is purposeful and no longer happenstance; the behavior is aimed at eliciting a specific response.
Habituation
a type of learning in which the individual has a gradually reduced response to continued stimuli.
Dishabituation
a type of learning in which the individual has an increased response to continued stimuli.
Transitive inference
is a form of seriation that involves the ability to place things in logical order mentally.