Lecture 15

young adults

people who struggle most with identity

same

feminists argue that identity and intimacy occur at the _______ time for women (not identity first)

religious

Koestner started taekwondo so he bought a gee (outfit) but his mom found it and thought he was in the Moonies, a ________ cult

Moonies

religious cult targeting middle class young people and assign you a partner to marry

childhood

Freud's theory focused too much on early _______

impact

the identity stage is very important because it will _______ all other stages afterward

identity

mainly about exploring and ultimately committing to specific life goals and values for the long haul [career goals] [values]

anxious

young adults who haven't settled on a career direction are more lost and ________

James Marcia

psychologist who developed the four stages of identity statuses

exploration

genuinely looking at and experimenting with alternative beliefs and directions that may be different from parents (ex: religion)

commitment

choosing to pursue certain roles and outlooks that define how you see yourself fitting into adult world

question

even with the 8 stages, it is always possible to __________ yourself

occupational, personal

areas of identity: _______ goals and ______ ideology (political/religious beliefs)

ideal

identity achievement is the ____ status

skipped

people in the status of foreclosure _______ stages of identity diffusion + moratorium (2 first stages)

solid

people in the status of foreclosure are vulnerable and don't have a _______ identity

20%

% of students who are in identity achieved

25%

% of students who are in identity diffusion

stress, difficulty

people in the statuses of identity diffusion and foreclosure both don't handle the ______ well and have _____ with intimacy

N, are

when struggling with our identity, it might make us look more _______ and more inhibited than we really ______

decreases, increases

once we get an identity, N _____ and social assertiveness _______

Peter Parker

character who is in the stage of foreclosure

high, low

people in moratorium status have _______ N and _______ social assertiveness

achievement

people who show reflective confidence are in the status of ______

explore, foreclosure

a criticism is that not all families encourage children to ______ (immigrants), so they end up in the ______ status

changed

Self-esteem study by Marcia: after getting feedback (+/-), people in diffusion and foreclosure statuses ______ their self-esteem a lot

not

Self-esteem study by Marcia: after getting feedback (+/-), people in moratorium and achievement statuses did _____ change their self-esteem

more

overtime, there are _____ people coming into achievement and moratorium statuses

Seinfeld

characters from _________ are in the stereotyped status of intimacy

Sheldon

character from Big Bang Theory who becomes in the pre-intimate status of intimacy

Friends

TV show in which people are in the pre-intimate status of intimacy

Pam and Jim

characters who get to the intimate status of intimacy

developmental

problematic personality traits may reflect ______ struggle

cultural

there are ______ and sub-_______ differences in the encouragement to explore identity

historical

there are ________ changes (norms) in the timing of identity and commitments