PSY313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: James Marcia, Ego Psychology, Sequential Analysis
Document Summary
Personality: personality: a person"s characteristic way of feeling or behaving. Perspectives on personality: psychodynamic perspective, trait approaches, social-cognitive approaches, cognitive perspective. Identity achievement vs diffusion (adolescence: defining oneself during adolescence, finding a place in society. Identity process theory identity balance (know themselves well: foreclosed high self-esteem, close-minded, strong commitment but minimal exploration. Identity process theory identity assimilation: moratorium open, curious; anxious, depressed, low self- esteem, low commitment, strong exploration. Identity process theory identity accommodation: identity diffuse delinquent, low self-esteem, low commitment and exploration. No change even if needed: straight and narrow way, identity accommodation: changing in response to experiences. Sentence completion test: 36 sentence opening (ex. Raising a family ; a woman should always : each item scored individual (by a trained rater using a manual) before arriving at a composite score, strong correlations between ego level and intellectual abilities. What could you be in the future: hoped-for possible self; oa usually health-related.
