TEST NEXT CLASS!!!

1. TEST NEXT CLASS!!! • Piaget • Erikson • Kohlberg

2. Kohlberg • Name and describe the three stages. • Hand in homework.

3. Adolescence What is it?

4. Define Adolescence • Adolescence: the period of development between childhood and adulthood. • From about 11-19.

5. Transition from Childhood • Rites of Passage: a socially recognized and ritualized change to status, such as the passage to adulthood. • Ex. Graduation, baptisms, bar mitzvahs, weddings, etc. • Share an example of a rite of passage you have been through with a neighbor.

6. Satere-Mawe Tribe: Amazon • Young men required to put their hands into mittens filled with hundreds of bullet ants. • The bite is approximately 20 more painful that being stung by a wasp.

7. Piaget’s Formal Operations Stage • Allows you to think abstractly about the future. • Can think about what might be, what could be, if certain things took place. • High level of reasoning ability helps adolescents consider how the world could be a better place.

8. Identity • One of the hardest issues to deal with is trying to find an identity.

9. Conformity and Group Identity • Adolescents often create small “exclusive” groups which are used as a form of self-protection. • When they identify with a particular group they take on its dress code, use its slang, and engage in its “approved” activities. • Creates a sense of belonging.

10. Crowds: large groups with loose rules and changeable memberships. • Cliques: a very tightly knit group with limited membership and strict rules of behavior. • Gangs: a rebellious, antisocial group with strict rules.

11. With a partner discuss and write down the following: • Examples of crowds and cliques at Castle • Benefits of being a part of a crowd or clique • Negative effects of being a part of a crowd or clique.

12. Identity Crisis: Erik Erikson • Saw support from social groups as necessary for exploring identity. • Group identity versus Alienation. • Developing a sense of yourself as an individual means achieving identity and never reaching this goal results in identity confusion.

13. Individual Identity and James Marcia • Divided Erikson’s identity crisis into four states. • States not stages so you do not progress from one to the next and you may not go through all of them. • Identity Foreclosure • Identity Diffusion • Moratorium • Identity Achievement

14. Identity Foreclosure • When an adolescent accepts the identity and values he or she was given in childhood. • They have not experimented with possibilities. • Their self-concept defined by other people.

15. Identity Diffusion • Adolescents who don’t have a clear idea of their identity and are not trying to find one.

16. Moratorium • Adolescents who are trying to achieve an identity through experimentation and trial and error.

17. Identity Achievement • Adolescents who have gone through the identity crisis and come out with a well-defined self-concept. • Their identities may be expanded and further defined but the basics are there.

18. Which of Marcia’s Identity States? Pink: Foreclosure Orange: Diffusion Yellow: Moratorium Green: Achievement 1) Jeremy ignored questions about what career to choose and went to work for his dad. Identity Foreclosure

19. Which of Marcia’s Identity States? Pink: Foreclosure Orange: Diffusion Yellow: Moratorium Green: Achievement 2) Hazel dated the same man for six years, had some good times and some bad, then finally married him because she loved him. Identity Achievement

20. Which of Marcia’s Identity States? Pink: Foreclosure Orange: Diffusion Yellow: Moratorium Green: Achievement 3) Josephine could not care less about a career and takes any job that comes along. Identity Diffusion

21. Which of Marcia’s Identity States? Pink: Foreclosure Orange: Diffusion Yellow: Moratorium Green: Achievement 4) Harold wants to make the right decision about college but will not decide until he explores several possibilities. Moratorium

22. Psychology Today Article • Read the Article silently on your own and answer the questions. • This is a summative.