PSYCH315 Lecture 6: The Self, Identity, Emotion, & Personality
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Self-examination: analysis of personal assets and liabilities. Erikson: disparity occurs between real and ideal, true and false conflict, argues there"s turmoil, during adolescence, everything you know about yourself before adolescence becomes challenged, earlier stages (build forward, trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. Fischer (neo-piagetian: handout, focuses on thinking and conceptualizing, based on cognitive advances, not ages, single abstractions. Crucial psychosocial question: (cid:498)who am i? (cid:499) Why do adolescents need an identity: understanding what kind of person you want to be when you grow up/ who you"d like to be with, etc, life choices, responsibilities. Inability to search for knowledge and identity, and to make decisions. Incompatible or poor decisions: then you move into identity resolution! 4 stages (can go through for any identity): Identity diffusion: not yet experienced a crisis, not questioning or searching, haven"t made a decision. In the midst of a crisis: no commitment yet. Identity achievement: gone through the conflict and made a commitment.
