PSYC 2070 Chapter : Test4 Ch 14 Studyguide
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Isolation a young adult must find a life partner outside of their family with whom they can share their life, or face the prospect of being isolated from society. Erikson predicted that individuals who reached early adulthood without having established a sense of identity would be incapable of intimacy. A life structure includes all the roles an individual occupies, all of his or her relationships, and the conflicts and balance that exist among them. Levinson theorized that each of these periods presents adults with new developmental tasks and conflicts. He believed that people respond psychologically to these tasks and conflicts by creating new life structures. Novice phase the period of adjustment when adults enter a period in which a new life structure is required. Mid-era phase adults become more competent at meeting the new challenges through reassessment and reorganization of the life structure they created during the novice phase.
