Topic 8

Question 1

Self concept

Answer 1

how you SEE yourself

Question 2

Self-esteem

Answer 2

how you FEEL about yourself

Question 3

Identity

Answer 3

the psychological structure that gives people a sense of personal continuity across situations and their individual history

Question 4

The identity crisis - Erikson

Answer 4

• for each issue or crisis there is a developmentally healthy path and an unhealthy path
• identity vs. identity diffusion

Question 5

psychosocial moratorium

Answer 5

a period in which adolescents are given a degree of freedom to explore their impulses, talents, interests, social roles, and beliefs without fear of drastic consequences. (Erikson)
-exploration without commitment

Question 6

Healthy path

Answer 6

establishing a clear and definite sense of who you are and how you fit into the world (identity achievement)

Question 7

Unhealthy path

Answer 7

identity foreclosure and identity diffusion

Question 8

Identity diffusion

Answer 8

no exploration, no commitment

Question 9

Identity foreclosure

Answer 9

commitment without exploration

Question 10

Identity achievement

Answer 10

both exploration and commitment

Question 11

Digiphrenia

Answer 11

experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time (instagram, facebook, etc.)

Question 12

Consolidate

Answer 12

try to have a crystallized identity that is well formed for many different audiences

Question 13

Individualize

Answer 13

presenting different identities via different networks

Question 14

Marcia’s model

Answer 14

identity crisis, identity status model, statuses rather than stages (identity diffusion, foreclosure, achievement, moratorium)