What is the term given by Erikson to the fifth stage of development experienced during adolescence quizlet?

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Erikson's fifth stage of psychosocial development, in which an adolescent seeks to develop a coherent sense of self, including the role he or she is to play in society. Also called identity versus role confusion.

Identity versus identity confusion

According to Erikson, identity forms as young people resolve three major issues:

-Choice of an occupation
-Adoption of values
-Development of sexual identity

Erikson believed this time-out period, which he called __________________ __________________, was ideal for the development of ___________and allowed young people the opportunity to search for _______________________ to which they could be faithful.

-Psychosocial moratorium
-Identity
-Commitments

Sustained loyalty, faith, or sense of belonging that results from the successful resolution of Erikson's identity versus identity confusion stage of development.

Fidelity

______________________ can also mean identification with a set of values, an ideology, a religion, a political movement, or an ethnic group.

Fidelity

A failure to form a coherent sense of identity can greatly delay reaching __________________ adulthood.

Psychosocial

Cliquishness and intolerance of differences, both hallmarks of the adolescent social scene, are defenses against....?

Identity confusion

Marcia's term for states of ego development that depend on the presence or absence of crisis and commitment

Identity Statuses

The four categories of identity status differ according to the presence or absence of ______ or ________________________, which are crucial to forming identity.

-Crisis
-Commitment

Marcia's term for period of conscious decision making related to identity formation

Crisis

Marcia's term for personal investment in an occupation or system of beliefs

Commitment

-Crises leading to commitment
-Characterized by commitment to choices made following a crises, a period spent in exploring alternatives

Identity achievement

People in this stage of identity status tend to be more mature and socially competent than people in other stages.

Identity achievement

"How willing do you think you'd be to give up going into ___________ if something better came along?"

"Well, I might, but I doubt it. I can't see what 'something better' would be for me."

Identity achievement

"How willing do you think you'd be to give up going into ___________ if something better came along?"

"Not very willing. It's what I've always wanted to do. The folks are happy with it and so am I."

Foreclosure

"How willing do you think you'd be to give up going into ___________ if something better came along?"

"I guess if I knew for sure, I could answer that better. It would have to be something in the general area...something related."

Motarorium

"How willing do you think you'd be to give up going into ___________ if something better came along?"

"Oh, sure. If something better came along, I'd change just like that."

Identity diffusion

"Have you ever had any doubts about your religious beliefs?"

"Yes, I started wondering whether there is a God. I've pretty much resolved that now. The way it seems to me..."

Identity Achievement

"Have you ever had any doubts about your religious beliefs?"

"Oh, I don't know. I guess so. Everyone goes through some sort of stage like that. But it really doesn't bother me much. I figure that one religion is about as good as another."

Identity Diffusion

"Have you ever had any doubts about your religious beliefs?"

"Yes, I guess I'm going through that right now. I just don't see how there can be a God and still so much evil in the world."

Moratorium

"Have you ever had any doubts about your religious beliefs?"

"No, not really; our family is pretty much in agreement on these things."

Foreclosure

Commitment without crisis
A person who has not spent time considering alternatives (has not been in crisis) is committed to other people's plans for his or her life.

Foreclosure

Adolescents are often involved in an ambivalent struggle with parental authority

Moratorium

Parents are laissez-faire in child-rearing attitudes; are rejecting or not available to children

Identity diffusion

Parents encourage autonomy and connection with teachers; differences are explored within a context of mutality

Identity achievement

Parents are overly involved with their children; families avoid expressing differences

Foreclosure

Crisis with no commitment
A person is currently considering alternatives (in crisis) and seems headed for commitment, resists parent authority

Moratorium

No commitment, no crisis
Absence of commitment and lack of serious consideration of alternatives

Identity diffusion

Juanita hasn't really thought about her identity, She has done little or no exploration of what her heritage means or what she thinks about it.

Diffused

Caleb has strong feelings about his identity, but those feelings are not really based on any serious exploration of his identity. Rather, he has absorbed the attitudes of other important people in his life. These feelings could be positive or negative.

Foreclosed

Cho-san has begun to think about what her ethnicity means to her but is still confused about it. She asks questions of others, talks about it with her parents, and thinks a great deal about it.

Moatorium

Diego has spent a good deal of time thinking about who he is and what his ethnicity means within that context. He now understands and accepts his ethnicity.

Achieved

____________ African Americans (27%) of adolescents were in the achieved group, as compared with 47% of the college students and 56% of the adults.

Less

African American adolescents are more likely to be in ________________________.

Moratorium

All those in the achieved status were ________ likely to view race as central to their identity.

Most

Although the effect is stronger in ______ than in ________, increases in racial identity over 1 year have been related to a decreased risk of depressive symptoms.

Males
Females

-Feeling good about one's ethnicity.
-Rises both during early and middle adolescence, especially for African Americans and Latinos.

Group esteem

Exploration of the Meaning of Ethnicity in One's Life: ___________________ only in middle adolescence, perhaps reflecting the transition to more ethnically diverse high schools.

Increased

Three aspects of racial/ethnic identity:

1. Connectedness to one's own racial/ethnic group
2. Awareness of racism
3. Embedded achievement (belief that academic achievement is part of group identity)

All three aspects of identity seem to ___________ and increase slightly during mid-adolescence.

Stabilize

A positive ______/_______ identity may buffer tendencies toward a drop in grades and connection ti school during the transition from middle school to high school.

Racial/Ethnic

Perceived ____________ during the transition to adolescence can interfere with positive identity formation and lead to conduct problems or depression.

Discrimination

__________ may undergo the process of identity formation before __________.

Girls
Boys

Parental practices that teach children about their racial/ethnic heritage and promote cultural practices and cultural pride.

Cultural socialization

Focus of consistent sexual, romantic, and affectionate interest, either heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual

Sexual orientation

Depending on whether it is measured by sexual or romantic attraction or arousal or by sexual behavior or sexual identity, the rate of homosexuality in the U.S. population ranges from ___ to ___%.

1 to 21%

In 1973, the psychiatric profession stopped classifying homosexuality as a _______ ______.

Mental disorder

Is sexual orientation genetic?

Partly

What chromosomes and stretches of DNA were involved in sexual orientation?

Stretches of DNA on chromosomes 7, 8, and 10

Because identical twins are not perfectly concordant for sexual orientation, _____________ factors also play a part.

Nongenetic

In the Swedish study, genes explained about _____% of the variation in men and _____% in women.

Shared family influences accounted for about _____% of the variation in women but had no effect in men.

34% for men
18% for women

16%

The more older biological brothers a man has, the more likely he is to be _____________.

Each older biological brother increases the chances of homosexuality in a younger brother by ______%.

The phenomenon may be a cumulative immune-like response to the presence of successive male fetuses in the womb.

Gay
33%

Brains of gay men and straight women are ___________________.

Symmetrical

In lesbians and straight men, the right hemisphere is slightly ___________.

Larger

In gays and lesbians, the amygdala, involved in emotion, are ______________ of the other sex.

Typical

One researcher reported a difference in size in the __________________, a brain structure that governs sexual activity, in heterosexual and gay men.

Hypothalamus

The odor of male sweat activated the ___________________ in gay men much as it did in heterosexual women.

Hypothalamus

Lesbian women and straight men reacted more _____________ to female pheromones than to male ones.

Positively

However, these differences in the brains of homosexuals and heterosexuals may be an ___________ of homosexuality, not a ___________.

Effect
Cause

For sexual orientation, much like ethnic identity formation, not being from the majority group makes the process of identity formation more _________.

Complex

There is ________ single route to the development of sexual identity and ___________.

No
Behavior

Because of the lack of socially sanctioned ways to explore their ______________, many gay and lesbian adolescents experience ____________ ____________.

Sexuality
Identity confusion

Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth who are unable to establish peer groups that share their sexual orientation may struggle with the ____________ of same sex attractions

Reognition

According to national surveys, _________% of never-married 15 to 19 year olds have had sex.

42.5%

__________% of young people in the United States have had sex by age 20.

77%

The proportion of young people who have had sex before age 20 has ___________ since the mid 1960s and the advent of the pill.

Been roughly the same

The average girl has her first sexual intercourse at ______.

The average boy at ______.

17

16

Approximately ______ of boys and girls report having had intercourse by age 15.

One fourth

African Americans and Latinos tend to begin sexual activity ____________ than white youth.

Earlier

Though teenage boys historically have been more likely to be sexually experienced than teenage girls, trends are shifting.

In 2011, _____% of 12th grade boys and _______% of girls reported being sexually active.

44%
51%

These people are ___________ at risk for STIs and pregnancy: people who start sexual activity early, have multiples partners, do not use contraceptives regularly, and have inadequate information or misinformation about sex.

Most

These are risk factors for _________ and ____________. Living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged community, substance use, antisocial behavior, and association with deviant peers.

Pregnancy
Sexually transmitted infections (STI)

Early puberty, poverty, poor school performance, lack of goals, a history of sexual abuse or parental neglect, and cultural or family patterns or early sexual experience, the absence of a father early in life

Why some adolescents become sexually active at an early age

Teens in two-parent families, having fathers who know more about their friends and activities is associated with _________ in sexual activity.

Delays

Teenagers who have close, warm relationships with their mothers are also likely to _______ sexual activity.

Delay

One of the most powerful influences of adolescent sexual activity is _____________________.

Perception of peer group norms

Nearly __________ of 15 to 17 year olds, especially _____, said they had experienced pressure to have sex.

One third
Boys

As U.S. adolescents have become more of the risks of sexual activity, the percentage who have ever had intercourse has _______________, especially among ____________.

Declined
Boys

Noncoital forms of genital sexual activity, such as oral and anal sex and mutual masturbation, are ____________.

Many heterosexual teens do not regard these activities as sex but as substitutes or precursors of sex, or even as abstinence.

Common

In one national survey, just over ________ of teenage boys and girls reported having given or received oral sex, more than had had vaginal intercourse.

Half

The use of contraceptives among teenagers has ___________________ since the 1990s

Increased

Teens who in their first relationship delay intercourse, discuss contraception before having sex, or use more that one method of contraception are _________ likely to use contraceptives _________ throughout that relationship.

More
Consistently

What is the best safegaurd for sexually active teens against STIs and pregnancy?

Condoms

The use of many types of contraceptives has ______________ among sexually active teenage girls in recent years.

Increased

Adolescents who start using prescription contraceptives often stop using _________, in some cases not realizing that they leave themselves unprotected against STIs.

Condoms

Adolescents get their information about sex primarily from friends, ____________, sex education in school, and the _______________.

Parents
Media

Programs that encourage abstinence but discuss STI prevention and safer sexual practices have been found to ___________ sexual initiation and ___________ contraceptive use.

Delay
Increase

Abstinence ONLY programs ________ delay sexual activity

NOT

Pledges to maintain virginity have shown _____________ impact on sexual behavior other than a ____________ in the likelihood to take precautions during sex.

Little
Decrease

Teens exposed to highly sexual television content were ______ as likely to experience a pregnancy compared with lower level or no exposure.

Twice

Infections and disease spread by sexual contact.

STI

An estimated 3.2 million adolescent girls in the US-about ___ in ___ of those ages 14 to 19-has had at least one STI

1 in 4

Early sexual activity, multiple partners, failure to use condoms or use them regularly and correctly, and a tendency to have sex with older partners

The chief reasons for the prevalence of STIs among teenagers

Despite that teens are at a higher risk for contracting STIs, they perceive their own personal risk as ________

Low

In a single unprotected sexual encounter with an infected partner, a girls runs a ___% risk of aquiring HIV, a ___% risk of genital herpes, and a ___% risk of gonorrhea.

1%
30%
50%

A number of STIs, especially _________________, can be transmitted through oral sex.

Pharyngeal gonorrhea

The most common STI, accounting for about half of all STI infections diagnosed in 15 to 24 year olds each year, is _____________________. This is also the leading cause of _____________cancer in woman.

Human papilloma virus (HPV) or genital warts
Cervical

Among girls with three or more partners, the risk jumps to ____%

50%

There are approximately _____ types of HPV virus.

40

A ___________ is available that prevents the types of HPV that cause the most cases of cervical cancer and genital warts.

Vaccine

The CDC recommends routine vaccinations for all female adolescents starting at age ___ or ___.

11 or 12

The most common CURABLE STIs are...

They can lead to...in women

Chlamydia and Gonorrhea

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease PID

Close to ______ in _____ teenage girls and ______ in _____ teenage boys are affected by either chlamydia or gonorrhea.

1 in 10
1 in 5

Although the occurrence rates of ________________ and _________________ have remained stable, _____________________ has increased sharply.

Gonorrhea and syphilis

Chlamydia

Chronic, recurring, often painful, and highly contagious disease. It can be fatal to a person with a deficiency of the immune system or to the newborn of a mother who has an outbreak at the time of delivery. Its incidence has _________________ dramatically during the past three decades.

Genital herpes
Increased

Hepatitis B remains a prominent STI despite the availability, for more than 20 years, of a preventative _______________.

Vaccine

A parasitic infection that may be passed along by moist towels and swimsuits.

Trichomoniasis

The __________________________which causes AIDS, is transmitted through _________________, usually by sharing intravenous drug needles or by sexual contact with an infected partner.

The virus attacks the body's __________________ system, leaving a person vulnerable to a variety or fatal diseases.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Bodily fluids
Immune

These are symptoms of...
Extreme fatigue, fever, swollen lymph nodes, weight loss, diarrhea, and night sweats.

AIDS

AIDS is incurable, but increasingly the related infections that kill people are being ______________ with antiviral therapy.

Stopped

AIDS has _________________ by 33% from 2001

Declined

More than _____% of programs that emphasized abstinence and condom use delayed and/or reduced sexually activity and increased the use of condoms or contraceptives

60%

More than ___ in ___ adolescent girls in the US have been pregnant at least once before age 20.

7 in 10

More than _____ of pregnant teenagers in the US have their babies

Half

_____% of adolescents choose to abort.

35

____________ and ______________ girls are more likely to have babies than white, American Indian, or Asian

Black and Hispanic

US girls are more likely to _________________ and less likely to____________________.

Have multiple sex partners
Less likely to use contraceptives

Relationships with parents during adolescence are grounded largely in the _____________ closeness developed in childhood.

Emotional

Adolescents' struggle for autonomy and personal identity

Individuation

Both ________________ and family connectedness during adolescence predicted well-being in middle age.

Individuation

Younger American teens define themselves in terms of their relationship with their parents, but this tendency ______________ with age.

Diminishes

__________________ parenting continues to foster healthy psychosocial development

Authoritative

_________________ parents insist on important rules, norms, and values but are willing to listen, explain, and negotiate.

They exercise appropriate control over a child's conduct (behavioral control) but not over the child's feelings, beliefs, and sense of self (psychological control)

Authoritative

The right to your own thoughts and feelings

Psychological autonomy

What should parents provide for teens to develop rules of conduct, psychological skills, and good mental health?

Structure and autonomy

What is one of the most consistently identified protective factors for teens?

Parental monitoring

Parental cohabitation itself may be _______ troublesome for adolescence than for younger children.

More

Behavior related to health and safety

Smoking, drinking, and drug use

Prudential issues

Lying, stealing, hitting

Moral issues

Bad manners or swearing

Conventional issues

Borderline issues, such as seeing an R rated movie, not cleaning bedroom, staying out late

Multifaceted Issues

How teens spend their time and money

Personal Issues

When to start dating, staying over at a friend's

Multifaceted Friendship Issues

Both clique and crowd affiliation tend to become _________ as adolescence progresses

Looser

The influence of peers normally peaks at ages 12 to 13 and declines during.....

Middle and late adolescence

At age 13 or 14, popular adolescents may engage in mildly...

Antisocial behaviors

The intensity of friendships and the amount of time spent with friends may be __________ in adolescence than at any other time.

Greater

Intimacy with same-sex friends _____________ during early to mid adolescence and ___________ as intimacy with the other sex grows

Increases
Decreases

In childhood, most peer groups are _______, or one-to-one though larger groups begin to form in middle childhood.

Dyadic

Structured groups of friends who do things together

Cliques

Larger type of grouping, which does not normally exist before adolescence. Based on reputation, image, or identity, not personal interactions.

Crowd

What type of antisocial behavior is this?

Beginning by age 11, tends to lead to chronic juvenile delinquency in adolescence.

Early-onset

Beginning after puberty, tends to arrive temporarily in response to the changes of adolescence: the mismatch between biological and social maturity, increased desire for autonomy, and decreased adult supervision. Tend to commit minor offenses.

Late-onset

As Bronfenbrenner's theory would suggest, the early onset type of antisocial behavior is influenced by interacting factors ranging from _____ to ______.

Microsystem influences to Macrosystem influences.

The choice of antisocial peers is affected mainly by...

Environmental factors

A neighborhood level influence involving the willingness of individuals in a neighborhood to work together to achieve a common goal, intervene if a problem is apparent, and help each other out in times of need.

Collective efficacy

The majority of young people who engage in juvenile delinquency ______________ become adult criminals.

Do not

Delinquency peaks at about age ______ and then declines as most adolescences and their families come to terms with young people's need to assert independence

15

Those most likely to persist in violence...

Boys who had...

Early antisocial influences

The least likely to persist in violence...

Boys and girls who were...

Girls who showed early...

Early school achievers

Prosocial development

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What is the term given by Erikson to the fifth stage of development experience during adolescence?

Identity versus role confusion is the fifth stage of ego in psychologist Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development. This stage occurs during adolescence between the ages of approximately 12 and 18. During this stage, adolescents explore their independence and develop a sense of self.

What are the five developmental stages of adolescence?

The fundamental purpose of these tasks is to form one's own identity and to prepare for adulthood..
Physical Development. Puberty is defined as the biological changes of adolescence. ... .
Intellectual Development. ... .
Emotional Development. ... .
Social Development..

What is Erikson's fifth psychosocial crisis and how is it resolved quizlet?

He said this crisis is resolved with identity achievement, when adolescents have reconsidered the goals and values of their parents and culture, accepting some and discarding others, forging their own identity.

What defines identity achievement quizlet?

Identity achievement. Description: Having already EXPLORED alternatives; individuals are COMMITTED to a clearly formulated set of self-chosen values and goals. They feel a sense of psychological well-being, of sameness through time and of knowing where they are going.