Chapter 6 The Self

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Actual Self

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A persons perception of the self as it is, contrasted with the possible self.

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Possible Selves

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A person's conceptions of the self as it potentially may be. May include both an ideal self and a feared self.

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Ideal Self

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The person an adolescent would like to be.

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Feared Self

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The self a person imagines it is possible to become but dreads becoming.

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False Self

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The self a person may present to others while realizing that it does not represent what he or she is actually thinking and feeling.

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Self-Esteem

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A person's overall sense of worth and well-being

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Self-Image

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A person's evaluation of his or her qualities and relations wit others. Closely related to self-esteem

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Self-Concept

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Persons' views of themselves usually including concrete characteristics (such as height and age) as well as roles, relationships, and personality characteristics

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Self-Perception

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A person's view of his or her characteristics and abilities. Closely related to self-esteem.

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Baseline Self-Esteem

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A pers0n's stable, enduring sense of worth and well-being

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Barometric Self-Esteem

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The fluctuating sense of worth and well-being people have as they respond to different thoughts, experiences and interactions in the course of a day.

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Response Bias

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On a questionnaire, the tendency to choose the same response for all items.

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Internal Consistency

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A statistical calculation that indicates the extent to which the different items in a scale or sub-scale are answered in a similar way.

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Psychohistory

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The psychological analysis of important historical figures.

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Identity

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Individuals' perceptions of their characteristics and abilities, their beliefs and values, their relations with others, and how their lives fit into the world around them.

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Identity versus identity confusion

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Erickson's term for the crisis typical of the adolescent stage of life, in which individuals may follow the healthy path of establishing a clear and definite sense of who they are and how they fit into the world around them, or follow the unhealthy alternative of failing to form a stable and secure identity.

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Identifications

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Relationships formed with others, especially in childhood, in which love for another person leads one to want to be like that person.

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Psychosocial Moratorium

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Erikson's term for a period during adolescence when adult responsibilities are postpones as young people try on various possible selves.

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Negative Identity

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Erikson's term for an identity based on what a person has seen portrayed as most undesirable or dangerous.

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Identity Status Model

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An approach to conceptualizing and researching identity development that classifies people into one of four identity categories: foreclosure, diffusion, moratorium, or achievement

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Identity Crisis

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Erikson's term for the intense period of struggle that adolescents may experience in the course of forming an identity.

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Identity Diffusion

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An identity status that combines no exploration with no commitment. No commitments have been made among the available paths of identity formation, and the person is not seriously attempting to sort through potential choices and make enduring commitments.

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Identity Moratorium

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An identity status that involves exploration but no commitment, in which young people are trying out different personal, occupational, and ideological possibilities.

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Identity Foreclosure

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An identity status in which young people have not experimented with a range of possibilities but have nevertheless committed themselves to certain choices- commitment, but no exploration.

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Identity Achievement

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The identity status of young people who have made definite personal, occupational, and ideological choices following a period of exploring possible alternatives.

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Postmodern Identity

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A conception of identity as complex and as hihly variable across contexts and across time.

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Intimacy Versus Isolation

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Erikson's term for the central issue of young adulthood, in which persons face alternatives between committing themselves to another person in an intimate relationship or becoming isolated as a consequence of an inability to forma an enduring intimate relationship.

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Assimilation

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In the formation of an ethnic identity, the approach that involves leaving the ethnic culture behind and adopting the ways of the majority culture.

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Marginality

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In the formation of ethnic identity, the option that involves rejecting one's culture of origin but also feeling rejected by the majority culture

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Separation

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In the formation of ethnic identity, the approach that involves associating only with members of one's own ethnic group and rejecting the ways of the majority culture.

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Biculturalism

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In the formation of ethnic identity, the approach that involves developing a dual identity, one based in the ethnic group of origin and one based in the majority culture.

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Hybrid Identity

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An identity that integrates elements of various cultures.

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Social Loneliness

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Condition that occurs when people feel that they lack a sufficient number of social contacts and relationships.

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Emotional Loneliness

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Condition that occurs when people feel that the relationships they have lack sufficient closeness and intimacy.