Lecture 10

Question 1

What are the 4 major changes in reorganization of social life?

Answer 1

Increase peer interaction, peer interaction is apart from adult control, gender reorientation, increase in size of peer group, intensity of friendships

Question 2

What are the important factors fro adolescent friendships?

Answer 2

Common interest, loyalty, intimacy, self-disclosing conversations

Question 3

What are the gender differences in friendships?

Answer 3

Girls friendships are more intense, girls want friends they can confide, boys friendships are more numerous, boys want friends to support them when they need help

Question 4

Group of several young people that remains small enough so members can regularly interact

Answer 4

Clique

Question 5

Groups whose members may or may not be friends but who are perceived to share common behavior, interest, beliefs, values

Answer 5

Reputation based crowds

Question 6

The search for true self, creating a unified sense of self

Answer 6

Identity formation

Question 7

Unique and consistent self definition

Answer 7

Identity

Question 8

What are the 2 factors that are essential to a mature identity?

Answer 8

Crisis/exploration, commitment

Question 9

actively exam future opportunities in life

Answer 9

Crisis/exploration

Question 10

Process by which adolescents commit to the goals, values, and beliefs they have adopted

Answer 10

Commitment

Question 11

What are the 4 patterns of identity formation?

Answer 11

Identity achievement, foreclosure, moratorium, identity diffusion

Question 12

Crisis and commitment are present, person understands who they are as a unique individual, reconsider goals set by parents and culture, actively pursue goals

Answer 12

Identity achievement

Question 13

Adolescent never goes through identity crisis yet commits to an identity, adopts parents or culture view wholeheartedly without question, premature identity formation

Answer 13

Foreclosure

Question 14

Adolescent has identity crisis but does not arrive at a decision, exploring alternatives without making final identity choices

Answer 14

Moratorium

Question 15

Adolescent tries out several identities without being able to settle on one, does not seem to know or care about identity, cynical attitude towards whole process

Answer 15

Identity diffusion