chapter 6 the self

Child Psychology 3321 with Maloney at Douglas College

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Actual Self

A person's perception of the self as it is.

Possible Selves

A person's conception of the self as it potentially may be.

Ideal self

The person an adolescent would like to be.

Feared self

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

False self

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

Self-esteem

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

Self-image

A person's evaluation of his or her qualities and relations with others.

Self-concept

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

Self-perception

A person's view of his or her characteristics and abilities.

Baseline self-esteem

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

Barometric self-esteem

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

Response bias

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

Internal consistency

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

Psychohistory

The psychological analysis of important historical figures.

Identity

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.

Identity versus identity confusion

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.

Identifications

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

Psychosocial moratorium

A period during adolescence when adult responsibilities are postponed as young people try on various possible selves.

Negative Identity

An identity based on what a person has seen portrayed as most undesirable or dangerous.

Identity status model

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

Identity crisis

The intense period of struggle that adolescents may experience may experience in the course of forming an identity.

Identity diffusion

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

Identity Moratorium

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

Identity foreclosure

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.

Identity achievement

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

Postmodern Identity

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

Intimacy versus isolation

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 form an enduring intimate relationship.

Assimilation

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

Marginality

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

Separation

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

Biculturalism

Involves developing a dual identity, one based in the ethnic group of origin and one based in the majority culture.

Hybrid identity

An identity that integrates elements of various cultures.

Social loneliness

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

Emotional loneliness

Occurs when people feel that the relationships they lave lack sufficient closeness and intimacy.

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