CHAPTER 16: ADOLESCENCE: PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Question 1

A consistent definition of one’s self as a unique individual, in terms of roles, attitudes, beliefs and aspirations

Answer 1

IDENTITY

Question 2

what is IDENTITY VS DIFFUSION?

Answer 2

Erikson’s term for the 5th stage of development, in which the person tries to figure out “who am I?” but is confused as to which of many passible roles to adopt.

Question 3

A situation in which an adolescent does not seem to know or care what his or her identity is

Answer 3

IDENTITY DIFFUSION

Question 4

_________ is a way for adolescents to postpone making identity achievement choices by finding an accepted way to avoid identity achievement. Going away to college is the most common example

Answer 4

MORATORIUM

Question 5

Erikson’s term for attainment of identity, or the point at which a person understands who he or she is as a unique individual in accord with past experiences and future plans.

Answer 5

IDENTITY ACHIEVEMENT

Question 6

Erikson’s term for premature identity formation, which occurs when an adolescent adopts parents’ or society’s roles and values wholesale without questioning and analysis.

Answer 6

FORECLOSURE

Question 7

what is SUICIDAL IDEATION?

Answer 7

Thinking about suicide usually with some serious emotional and intellectual or cognitive overtones.

Question 8

adolescents and parents..

Answer 8

generational state