T4D2 Flashcards
What is identity
Who am I?
What am I about?
What am I going to do with my life?
James Marcia’s Identity Statuses Scale
Exploration: Low vs High
Committment: Low vs High
James Marcia’s Identity Statuses: Foreclosure
Low Exploration, High Committment. Adopting an identity without exploration or thought.
James Marcia’s Identity Statuses: Identity Achievement
High Exploration, High Committment. A person has chosen an identity and adult life path after searching out various options
James Marcia’s Identity Statuses: Identity Diffusion
Low Exploration, Low Committment. ‘Drifting aimlessly without any goals’. Not knowing what you want to do with your life and not trying to find out.
James Marcia’s Identity Statuses: Moratorium
Low Committment, High Exploration. Active search into different adult pathways
Define Ethnic Identity
A sense of being a member of an ethnic group and the way you feel about that membership
Interaction between SES and Ethinicity in Identity
Ethnicity and SES have often been lumped together in research.
Discuss religious development and application of logical skills
Adolescents may start applying their new found logical thinking skills to religious principles and start developing different religious/spiritual beliefs.
Religion in adolescence has been found to foster what
care and concern for others and develop a love for community service
Define Parental monitoring
Supervising choice of social settings, activities, friends and academic efforts
Define parental Conflict
Conflict can be seen as a positive move towards independence
Disclosure of whereabouts is more likely when
having a positive relationship (trust acceptance) with adolescent
4 Reasons for dating
- Recreation
- Status
- Learning about close relationships (connects to slide on opportunity for close relationships)
- Finding a mate
Stages of adolescent dating
11-13: crush, triggered by puberty
14-16: exploring romantic relationships
17-19: more serious romantic relationships
Early (11-13) romantic relationships can lead to what
problems at home and at school and are linked to adolescent depression
3 factors of Poor family relationships
Alienated from parents
No parental monitoring
No authoritative parenting
3 reason why adolescents get in trouble (ven diagram, rational, emotional, wise in middle)
Poor family relationships
Having delinquent friends
Prior emotion-regulation problems
Define Emerging adulthood (18-25):
- The transition from adolescence to adulthood.
- Experimentation and exploration of career paths and lifestyles.
College drinking peaks when
at ages 21-22
5 things Binge drinking can cause
- missing school/school work
- drinking and driving
- unprotected sex
- rape
- one in nine binge drinkers will become alcoholic
Related to sexual activity and adulthood, emerging adulthood is a time frame during which many people are what
sexually active and not married
Average age of marriage in the US is
26-28
Average age of first intercourse is
16
Undiagnosed STIs cause how many women each year to become infertile
24,000
Define flow, related to creativity
Feeling total absorption in a challenging, goal-oriented activity
Flow can give you clues when you are deciding about a career
Who developed concept of flow
Mihaly Csikszentmilahalyi
“being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost.”
In Sweden it is common to do what before college
take 2-3 years to explore before going to college
6 strategies for flow
- Try to be surprised by something every day
- Try to surprise at least one person every day
- Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others
- When something sparks your interest, follow it
- Wake up in the morning with a specific goal to look forward to
- Spend time in settings that stimulate your creativity
Summary of Flow Channel diagram
Challenges: Low vs High
Skills: Low vs High
Flow channel up the middle, boredom in bottom right, Anxiety in upper left
Define vocational/career identity
The career and work path the person wants to follow
Summary of class poll on identity
Most of class were “neither” on political identities poll, all were believers on religion,
Define political identity
Whether the person is conservative, liberal, or middle-of-the-road
Define religious identity
The person’s spiritual beliefs
Define relationship identity
Whether the person is single, married, divorced, and so on
Define achievement, intellectual identity
The extent to which the person is motivated to achieve and is intellectually oriented
Define sexual identity
Whether the person is heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or transgendered
Define cultural/ethnic identity
Which part of the world or country a person is from and how intensely the person identifies with his or her cultural heritage
Define interests identity
The kinds of things a person likes to do, which can include sports, music, hobbies, and so on
Define personality identity
The individual’s personality characteristics, such as being introverted or extroverted, anxious or calm, friendly or hostile, and so on
Define physical identity
The individual’s body image
Summary of class poll on dating and genes
Most of class were concerned or understood concern about marrying girl with birth defects in family
Summary of flow video
Mihaly Csikszentmilahalyi came to US, researched happiness, developed concept of flow. Important for artists and musicians. State owned Green Cargo Company not profitable for 125 years, applied flow principles, company became profitable, Microsoft and Patagonia also use flow in work. Lesson is assign people to what they like to do.
Summary of video on rape and alcohol (upstander video)
Men are likely to assume that women drinking are willing sex partners, people should intervene to stop rape
Can you have an STI without knowing it?
Yes, lots of STIs don’t have symptoms
Caused by bacteria, discharge from penis or vagina, can lead to infertility
Gonorrhea
Caused by bacteria, has appearance of a sore on external genitals, skin rash later breaks out, can lead to paralysis or death
Syphilis
Common STI caused by bacteria, untreated can cause interfility in females
Chlamydia
Caused by viruses, spread by sexual contact, involves eruption of sores and blisters
Genital herpes
Caused by HIV virus
AIDS
Caused by HPV virus, does not always produce symptoms, appears as small bumps around genitals, can leave to genital cancers
Genital warts
