Textbook 9.1, 10.1, 10.3, & 10.4 Flashcards
Different stages individuals go through when developing their sense of identity:
Identity Statuses
The individual is overwhelmed by the task of achieving an identity and does little to accomplish the task:
Diffusion
The individual has a status determined by adults rather than by personal exploration:
Foreclosure
The individual is examining different alternatives but has yet to find one that’s satisfactory:
Moratorium
The individual has explored alternatives and has deliberately chosen a specific identity:
Achievement
Self-absorption that is characteristic of teenagers as they search for identity:
Adolescent Egocentrism
Adolescents feel they are the center of attention and others are constantly watching them:
Imaginary Audience
The attitude of many adolescents that their feelings and experiences are unique and have never been experienced by anyone:
Personal Fable
Adolescents’ belief that misfortunes cannot happen to them:
Illusion of Invulnerability
The feeling of belonging to a specific ethnic group:
Ethnic Identity
The period between late teens and mid-to-late 20s when individuals are not adolescents but are not fully adults:
Emerging Adulthood
Rituals marking initiation into adulthood:
Rites of Passage
Movement into the next stage of development, which is marked by the assumption of new responsibilities and duties:
Role Transitions
The desire to live life more on the edge through physically and emotionally threatening situations that are on the boundary between life and death:
Edgework
A characteristic of theories of intelligence that identify several types of intellectual abilities:
Multidimensional
A developmental pattern in which some aspects of intelligence improve and other aspects decline during adulthood:
Multidirectionality
Patterns of change that vary from one person to another:
Interindividual Variability
Groups of related intellectual skills (e.g., Number, Word Fluency, Verbal Meaning, Inductive Reasoning, Spatial Orientation):
Primary Mental Abilities
Broad intellectual skills that subsume and organize primary mental abilities:
Secondary Mental Abilities
The abilities that make people flexible and adaptive thinkers, allow them to make inferences, and enable them to understand relations among concepts:
Fluid Intelligence
The knowledge acquired through life experience and education in a particular culture:
Crystallized Intelligence
The proposal that intelligence comes from a distributed and integrated network of neurons in the parietal and frontal lobes of the brain:
Parietofrontal Integration Theory
Thinking characterized by recognizing that the correct answer varies from one situation to another, that solutions should be realistic, that ambiguity and contradiction are typical, and that subjective factors play roles in thinking:
Postformal Thought
The way in which adults reason through real-life dilemmas:
Reflective Judgment
Unified sense of the past, present, and future based on personal experience and input from other people:
Life-Span Construct
A manifestation of the life-span construct through expectations about the future:
Scenario
Tagging future events with a particular time or age by which they are to be completed:
Social Clock
A personal narrative that organizes past events into a coherent sequence:
Life Story
Representations of what we could become, what we would like to become, and what we are afraid of becoming:
Possible Selves
The degree to which you believe your performance in a situation depends on something you do:
Personal Control Beliefs
Behavior aimed at affecting the individual’s external world:
Primary Control
Behavior or cognition aimed at affecting the individual’s internal world:
Secondary Control
