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Personality Development Flashcards

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Psychosexual

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Freud. Personality develops through the interaction of personal needs and environment. Past is essential in present behaviors. Personality involves transforming three basic instincts into socially acceptable, rational behavior.

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Libido

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Freud. Basic, instinctual life force.

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Id

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Present at birth. Basic instincts (libido, sex. aggression, survival, pleasure). Pleasure principle. Strives to reduce tension by seeking immediate gratification of needs.

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Ego

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Emerges during first year of life. Reality principle. Make socially acceptable, reality-based resolution to the urges of the id and demands of super-ego.

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Superego

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Morality principle. Emerges at 5 years old. Morals and standards are internalized through social interactions and societal rules and mores. Counterbalances id.

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Anxiety according to Freud

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Ego is unable to reconcile id’s urges with superego’s moralized response. You create defense mechanisms to control anxiety.

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Repression

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Pushing undesirable thoughts and feelings from consciousness

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Regression

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Return to an earlier, more comfortable (childlike) period in life

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Displacement

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Redirecting feelings onto a less threatening person or object.

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Projection

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Placing personal feelings, thoughts, or motives on someone else.

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Rationalization

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Justifying one’s behavior with logical-sounding reasons, thus concealing the real reason for a behavior.

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Compensation

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Substituting a successful experience for one that produced failure.

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Reaction formation

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Expressing opposite motives than was originally intended to help prevent unwanted attitudes or feelings from becoming expressed.

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Psychosexual theory

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People must resolve various conflicts resulting from the psychic or libidinal energy.

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Fixation

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Inability to resolve important conflict due to either over gratification or under gratification of a need in any stage.

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Oral stage

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Birth to one year. Source of pleasure is through mouth. Fixation results in oral needs continuing to influence personality (dependence, passivity, gullibility, sarcasm, smoking, gum chewing, thumb sucking, overeating)

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Anal stage

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1-3 years. Primary source of gratification is the anus. Pleasure is attained through retention and expulsion of feces and urine. Fixation results in retentiveness (stingy, obsessive thinking, compulsive behavior, cleanliness, orderliness) or explosiveness (messiness, destructiveness, cruelty)

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Phallic stage

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3-5 years. Primary source of gratification is genitals. Pleasure from manipulating genitals. Oedipus complex (male child desires to eliminate father and be with mother), Electra complex (female child desires to eliminate mother). Fixation involves sexual exploitation of others.

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Latency stage

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6-11 years. Secual desires become dormant. Focus turns to mastery of social skills, personal awareness, and ego refinement. Learn how to relieve anxiety through use of defense mechanisms.

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Genital stage

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Puberty causes reemergence of sexual impulses. Show interest in sex and capable of real love. Potential remergence of Oedipus/Electra complexes. Success leads to sexual maturation, marriage, and child rearing.

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Psychosocial theory

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Proposed by Erik Erikson. Focuses on individual’s learned social interactions within the environment as a key influence on ego development. Personality continues to develop throughout one’s life and developmental problems are reversible. Successfully resolving these crises at each stage holds potential for positive growth.

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Basic trust vs. mistrust

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Birth to 1 or 2. Caretaker’s responsibility is to create a trusting environment for, and positive relationship with, the infant. Mistrust occurs when infants are not comforted, encounter unpredictability, or handled in an uncaring manner.

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Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt

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1 or 2 - 3 years. Toddlers use their developing motor and cognitive skills to decide for themselves. Positive interactions with caretakers leads to autonomy (reasonable balance of freedom and control rather than forcing the child to comply, resulting in feelings of shame or doubt over one’s ability to operate on the social environment)

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Initiative vs. Guilt

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3 - 5 years. Display sense of ambition and responsibility. Parents can help further these characteristics by helping children set goals and carry out their plans without being too controlling, which leads to guilt and inhibition. Family relationships are key social interactions and children must recognize and respect rights of others.

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Industry vs. inferiority

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6 - 11 years. Productivity in work and play is emphasized and children strive for competence. Must master social and academic tasks while learning to cooperate. Or else they develop sense of inferiority, incompetence, and failure. School and neighborhood social interactions become essential.

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Identity vs. Role Confusion

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Adolescents (12-19) recognize and integrate a sense of uniqueness, personal identity (“who am I?”) and future direction (“Where do I fit in society?”). Choose goals and values to establish a personal identity. Adolescents who do not choose goals experience confusion and question their purpose and direction.

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Intimacy vs. Isolation

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Young adult. Main task is to establish intimate bonds of love and friendship, rather than isolation and self-absorption. Peer relationships are central social supports. Learn to trust and trade independence for intimacy and love.

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Generativity vs. Stagnation

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MIddle adulthood consider family relations, partners, and intimate friendships to be of greatest importance, and people seek to enhance future generations through child rearing and nurturing others. Work productivity is also essential as people seek a peak in personal abilities. Negative outcomes reflect feelings of meaninglessness in one’s accomplishments.

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Integrity vs. Despair

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Old age. Come to terms with mortality and limitations to reflect on their life with a sense of pride, achievement, satisfaction, and integrity and face death. Others reflect on life with regret and despair. All humankind is now the social focus.

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Criticisms of Erikson’s theory

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It is ethnocentric and gender-based because of its focus on independence rather than community.

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Ego development theory

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By Jane Loevinger. Includes 10 stages: Presocial stage > Symbiotic stage > Impulsive stage > Self-protective stage > Conformist stage > Self-awareness and self-conscious stage > Conscientious > Individualistic > Autonomous > Integrated

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Presocial stage

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Babies self-differentiate from an outer world

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Symbiotic stage

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Differentiation of self from others

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Impulsive stage

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Affirms separate identify; demanding

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Self-protective stage

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Self-control; rule-governed behavior

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Conformist stage

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Obey group rules; strive for acceptance from family

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Self-awareness and self-conscious stage

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Strive for stability and maturity

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Conscientious

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Internalize rules and morality

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Individualistic

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Strive for individuality; awareness of inner conflict

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Autonomous

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Strive for self-fulfillment; cope with inner conflict

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Integrated

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Consolidated identity

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Humanistic Theory

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By Abraham Maslow. Whole is greater than sum of its parts (holistic). View humans as intrinsically good. People make choices about themselves based on self-perceptions and perceived circumstances.

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Hierarchy of needs.

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Humans have an innate need for self-actualization, which can only be attained when lower order needs are met.

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Order of needs

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Physiological > Safety > Belongingness > Esteem > Self-actualization

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Physiological need

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Food, water, rest

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Safety need

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Shelter, warmth, physical security, emotional security

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Belongingness

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Loving relationships, sense of belonging

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Esteem

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Self-respect, self-confidence, feelings of success

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Self-actualization

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Sense of purpose

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When are self-actualization needs met?

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Middle adulthood (60 years old) if at all.

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Characteristics of self-actualization

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Acceptance of self and others, spontaneity, autonomy, creativeness, resistance to enculturation, problem centering, continued freshness of appreciation.

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Five factor model

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Evidence-based model of personality. Considered most important, influential, and comprehensive explorations into personality ever developed. Five factors: OCEAN. Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.

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Openness (big five personality)

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High degree of openness = rich imaginations, strong awareness of their emotions, intellectual curiosity, desire to seek out new experiences. Opposite = closed/conventional

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Conscientiousness (big five personality)

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High degree of conscientiousness = plan carefully, act responsibly, strive for achievement, adept at self-regulating behavior. Low = spontaneous/risk takers

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Extraversion (big five personality)

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high degree of extraversion = social, outgoing, energetic. Low degree = introvert, spend more time alone and engaged in quieter activities.

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Agreeableness (big five personality)

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High degree of agreeableness = friendly, easy to get along with, interested in other people, sympathetic, compassionate, trusting. Low degree = disagreeable, care less about people’s feelings and more about achieving their own wants and needs.

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Neuroticism (big five personality)

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High degree of neuroticism = Emotionally imbalanced, anxious, depressed. Frequently have trouble coping with stress and experience negative moods. Low degrees = more stable and better able to regulate emotions.

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NEO Personality Inventory–Revised

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Big 5

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Ethological theories

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emphasize role of instinct in human development––people are born with innate capacities (affected by evolution) that affect learning experiences.

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Konrad Lorez

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Imprinting experiments using ducks/goslings. Attaches to first moving object it encounters shortly after hatching. Concept of critical period or sensitive period.

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John Bowlby

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Infants are born with potential for attachment. Form natural bond with caregiver. This enables them to explore the environment without fear of abandonment. Failure affects trust and intimacy.

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Protest (attachment theory)

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Infant refuses to accept separation and cries

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Despair (attachment theory)

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Infant seems to give up all hopes of summoning caretaker and become quiet, inactive, and withdrawn.

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Detachment (attachment theory)

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Begins to accept attention from others and seems less unhappy. When caretaker reemerges, infant appears uninterested, getting even for perceived abandonment.

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Mary Ainsworth

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Described four patterns of attachment: Security, Avoidantly, Ambivalently, Disorganized

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Securely attached

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Normal and secure relationships in which children explore environment and protest separation

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Avoidantly attached

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Withdrawn behaviors in which children explore without regard for caretaker, ignore separations, and avoid reunions when caretaker reemerges

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Ambivalently attached

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Clinging behaviors in which child refuses to explore environment and protests separations vehemently

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Disorganized attachment

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Children show little emotion at separation and mostly confusion at reunion

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Harry Harlow

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Experiments using rhesus monkeys. Baby monkeys put in cages with wire caregivers. One with a bottle (for food) one with a terrycloth (comfort). Monkeys got the food, but preferred terrycloth.

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Stranger anxiety

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Around 6 months of age. Infants become fearful in the presence of strangers (or noncaretakers).

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Separation anxiety

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Occurs between 1 and 2 years old. Extreme distress when separation from a primary caregiver. This is normal development. This is different from separation anxiety disorder.

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Identity vs. role diffusion

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Preeminent stage of adolescence. Identity means an understanding of oneself as a separate, distinct individual.

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Normative identity

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Consistent with values and expectations of society or culture (becoming doctor, teacher, mother)

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Deviant identity

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Inconsistent with values and expectations of society or culture (addiction, criminal)

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Achieved identity

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Earned through effort and ability (counselor, teacher, monther)

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Ascribed identity

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Given by others or the result of another’s efforts and achievements

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Identity achievement

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Committing to gals and taking a course of action to achieve them.

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Four types of identity

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Marcia’s expansion on Erikson’s psychosocial crisis.

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Identity moratorium

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Continuing to take in and analyze information without agreeing on goals or a course of action.

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Identity foreclosure

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When others have determined goals of teen and teen pursues goals without question

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Identity diffusion

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When teens procrastinate or become so confused they are unable/unwilling to take in and analyze identity-related information that could lead to goal setting

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Sexual identity

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Biological features as determined by chromosome information.

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Gender identity

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Psychosocial awareness of one’s maleness or femaleness and has an environmental or cultural component.

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Gender roles

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socially defined behaviors associated with particular sex.

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Androgyny

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Gender neutral concepts (everyone drives cars, cleans living areas)

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Gender role conflict

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Individual feels anxiety and dissonance as previously held gender expectations conflict with changing gender roles

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Social learning theory

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Children learn gender roles through observation

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Cognitive-developmental models

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Children become more aware of gender identities.

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Biological theories

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Role of hormones. More aggressive females and males have higher levels of testosterone than less aggressive peers.

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Psychoanalytic theory

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Role of Oedipus and Electra complexes. Children emulate their parents.

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Social development

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To be accepted into a peer group, members must comply with patterns of interactions known as rituals and routines.

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Prosocial behavior

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Sensitivity to the needs of others.

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Instrumental aggression

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Acquiring territory, objects, rewards

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Hostile aggression

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Aimed at another person.

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Sociodramatic play

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Imitation of adult play and facilitates more mature social interactions

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Social play categories

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Nonsocial activity, parallel play, associative play, cooperative play

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Nonsocial activity

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Preschool years, children play by themselves, wander around, and observe but do not play with another child

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Parallel play

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Children play near each other, sometimes doing the same activity, but not with each other.

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Associative play

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While doing separate activities, they talk and comment on each other’s activities

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Cooperative play

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Children play with each other to attain a common goal

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Disengagement theory

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One theory of aging. Withdrawal from the social system is a natural process.

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Activity theory

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One theory of aging. As people age, they prefer to remain socially active in order to resist self-preoccupation and maintain close social relationships.

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Four stages of retirement

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Preretirement (making plans), immediately after retirement (honeymoon phase), period of disenchantment (novelty of retirement wears off, plans were unrealistic), reorientation (put together a realistic lifestyle)

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Stages of grief (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

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Shock and denial, anger, bargaining and guilt, Hopelessness, Acceptance

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Freud believed that fixation results from

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Both overgratification and undergratification

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Erikson would consider a normal 4-year old child to be in the __________ stage of personality development.

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Initiative vs. guilt

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Desiree is an obedient daughter who wants to make sure her family approves of her choices. At school, she has always felt more comfortable following the rules than rebelling. She is in the _______ stage of Loveinger’s ego development theory.

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Conformist.

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According to Maslow, before people can meet their needs for esteem, they must feet their need for…

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Safety, belongingness, survival.

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Claire is three years old. When her mother leaves for work in the morning, she cries so loud and for so long that her grandparents shut all the apartment windows and doors. They fear that their neighbors will suspect child abuse. When Claire’s mother returns, Claire clings to her leg as she does her house chores for the evening. Claire would be considered by Mary Ainsworth to display…

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Ambivilent attachment

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