PSY2071 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10-11: Attachment In Adults, Identity Formation
5 Jun 2018
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PSY2071 – Readings – Week 7
• emerging adulthood
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o the phase of life that begins after high school, tapers off toward the
late twenties and is devoted to constructing an adult life.
• beginning and end points
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o exploring the entry point - nest leaving
• social clock
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o the concept that we regulate our passage through adulthood by an
inner timetable that tells us which life activities are appropriate at
certain ages
• age norms
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o cultural ideas about the appropriate ages for engaging in particular
activities or life tasks
• on time
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o being on target in a culture’s timetable for achieving adult life
tasks
• off time
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o being too late or too early in a cultures timetable for achieving
adult life tasks
• constructing an identity
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o identity
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▪ in erikson’s theory - the life task of deciding who to be as a
person in making the transition to adulthood
o role confusion
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▪ erikson’s term for a failure in idenetity formation, marked
by the lack of any sense of a future adult path
o identity statuses
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▪ marcia’s four categories of identity formation
▪ identity diffusion
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▪ an identity status in which the person is aimless of
feel totally blocked without an adult life path
▪ identity foreclosure
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▪ an identity status in which the person decide on an
adult life path - often one spelled out by an authority
figure without any thought or active search
▪ adopt an identity without any self exploration or
thought
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