Adolescence: Psychosocial Development
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1. Erikson’s term for a pause in identity formation that allows young people to explore alternatives
2. How widespread within a population a particular behavior or circumstance is.
3. Petty, peevish arguing, usually repeated & ongoing.
4. The need of each generation to view family interactions from its own perspective because each has a different investment in the family scenario.
5. A deliberate act of self-destruction that does not end in death.
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6. How often a particular behavior or circumstance occurs.
7. Erikson’s term for premature identity formation.
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8. Thinking about suicide, usually with some serious emotional & intellectual or cognitive overtones is called suicidal _______.
9. Erikson’s term for the attainment of identity.
10. A situation in which an adolescent does not seem to know or care what his or her identity is.
11. An identity opposite of the one an adolescent is expected to adopt.
12. A person’s acceptance of the roles & behaviors that society associates with the biological category of male or female is this type of identity.
13. The distance between generations in values, behaviors, & knowledge, marked by a mutual lack of understanding.
14. A consistent definition of one’s self as a unique individual.