Actual Self - correct answer ✔✔the person's perception of the self as it is, contrasted with the possible
self
---Often the place in between feared and ideal self
Possible Selves - correct answer ✔✔A person's conception of the self as it potentially may be (May
include both an ideal self and feared self)
Ideal Self - correct answer ✔✔the person an adolescent would like to be (kind of unattainable, far
reaching)
Feared Self - correct answer ✔✔the self a person imagines it is possible to become but dreads coming
(the dropout, lazy, etc)
What allows for teens to think this way? - correct answer ✔✔-Formal operations allows for abstract and
complex thought
---EX: "I can see everything that is out there for me to be"
---EX: "I can see more than just one version, one way of being"
The false self - correct answer ✔✔a self that is presented to others, when it is known to the person that
is is NOT who they are
Self Esteem - correct answer ✔✔A person's overall sense of worth and well being
--American Phenomenon
Baseline Self Esteem - correct answer ✔✔a person's stable level of sense of worth and well being
Baraometric Self Esteem - correct answer ✔✔fluctuating sense of worth and well being as they respond
to different thoughts, experiences, and interactions in the course of a day
,TED TALK: "Why thinking you're ugly is bad for you" - correct answer ✔✔--We focus so much on our
appearance now that other areas in our lives are suffering (don't talk in school b/c don't want people to
notice how you look, lower GPA/grade on a test if you don't think you are skinny enough)
--These drastic measures to pursue a perfect appearance often leads to more risk behaviors
--This problem effects are economy → spend billions of dollars because of these crazy diet trents, girls
who don't feel confident less likely to go to an interview
Most important domain of self esteem - correct answer ✔✔-physical appearance---> strongly related to
global self esteem
-Kind of outweighs the "good" other categories if you feel poorly about physical appearance
Cause and Effect of Self Esteem - correct answer ✔✔-Positive relationship with parents
-School success → high self esteem → school success
-Low self esteem in family and school with high self esteem in peer group results in → at risk behaviors
The Emotional Self - correct answer ✔✔-High self report of feeling awkward, lonely, nervous, and
ignored
-Abstract reasoning allowing for them to see the layers of a situation
-Decline in positive emotions from 9-10 grade, then leveling out in 12th
, Kristin Neff: Self Compassion - correct answer ✔✔-Self compassion involves acting the same way
towards yourself when you are having a difficult time...etc
--Would you talk to your friends the same way you talk to yourself?
Erikson's Theory: Identity vs Identity Confusion - correct answer ✔✔-Establishing a clear sense of who
you are
-Create an identity after modeling themselves after parents, friends, and others
-This stage can be impacted by the problems in earlier stages of development, creating identity
confusion
Psychosocial Moratorium - correct answer ✔✔Erikson's term for a period during adolescence when
adult responsibilities are postponed as young people try on various possible selves
James Marcia's Identity Status Interview - correct answer ✔✔--Commitment vs Exploration & High vs
Low periods of: Achieved, Moratorium, Foreclosed, Diffuse
- high exploration + high commitment = achieved
- low exploration + high commitment = foreclosed (conformity, obedience to authority)
Ethnic Identity - correct answer ✔✔one's sense of beloning to an ethnic group and the part of one's
thinking, feelings, and behaviors that is due to ethnic group membership
Phinney's Ethnic Identity Model: Bicultural - correct answer ✔✔Individuals become bicultural by
maintaining aspects their own group and selectively acquire some of the host culture
Phinney's Ethnic Identity Model: Assimilated - correct answer ✔✔Individuals solely identify with the
dominant culture and sever ties with their own culture.
Phinney's Ethnic Identity Model: Separated - correct answer ✔✔Individuals identify solely with their
culture and reject host culture.
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