PSYB30H3 Lecture 16: Personality Lecture 16 Notes
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freud: you have to solve one stage to move on to the next. erikson: you will move on regardless of whether you have succeeded or failed. we move on from one stage to the next because society expects us to. 4 possible statuses that emerge with the challenge of identity. identity achievement: higher grades in college, score higher in tat measures of achievement motivation. non-conforming to peer pressure and social norms. anxious & frienly, likeable, sensitive and insightful. constant reference to family and parents" values. evidence of commitment but nothing about exploratory behaviour. identity is followed by the issue of intimacy. virtue: love : capacity to put aside differences. excess: promiscuoity intimate too quickly, superficially. intimacy: for erikson, it meant opening up to anything outside of ourselves. It included romantic partner, but also self-disclosure we engage in, in friendships.