Chapter 1
Opinion of oneself, your worth, abilities and limitations, and how much you like and value yourself.
What is Self-esteem?
Mature independence and interdependence, achieve psychological emancipation.
What is Autonomy?
You accept responsibility for the consequences of your choices rather than hold others accountable if you are not satisfied with the way your life is going.
What is Maturity?
Show a deep caring for and honesty with one’s self and others.
What is Basic Honesty and Caring?
The emotional and affective bond between an infant and their primary caregiver.
What is Attachment?
Psychological discomfort experienced when a person holds two or more conflicting beliefs, attitudes, or values, or when their actions contradict their beliefs.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
A systematic approach that emphasizes the social context of behavior and how gender affects behavior.
What is Feminist Perspective?
The early adulthood challenge to establish close and trusting relationships with others.
What is Intimacy vs. Isolation?
Teaches people how to make effective choices and satisfy their basic needs.
What is Reality therapy?
To find satisfaction through mentoring or care of others.
What is Generativity?
The rational part of our personality, part seen by others, balances the demands of the id and superego in the context of reality.
What is the Ego?
Focus on self-confidence in reaching out to others for help as well as achieving the ability to do more things independently.
What is Initiative Vs. Guilt?
Refers to women and minorities being placed in leadership positions when the risk of failure is high.
What is the Glass Cliff?
The ability to recognize and classify plants, animals, and other entities in the natural world, along with an appreciation for natural patterns and environmental relationships.
What is Naturalistic intelligence?
Age related muscle loss.
What is Sarcopenia?
The individual defines and assesses their own growth in a lifelong process while dealing with numerous crises at various stages of life.
What is Personal Growth?
Teens put on hold commitment to an identity while exploring their options.
What is Psychosocial moratorium?
Aging that results from inevitable and genetically influenced biological changes.
What is Primary aging?
Seek independence and control over one’s actions, excessive criticism or restriction can lead to feelings of shame and doubt, resulting in insecurity and difficulty with decision-making later in life.
What is Autonomy vs. shame and doubt?
The idea that cultural standards, values, and ethics are a product of the time and cultural context within which they developed, and what is proper, relevant, or true for one individual may not be for another.
What is Relativism?
The ability to understand your own thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and motivations, and how they impact yourself and others.
What is Self-awareness?
The adoption of norms and values that are the opposite of one’s family and culture.
What is Negative Identity?
Intuitive thinking that comes from experience is combined with the logic of formal operations to produce a cognitive style known as relativism.
What is Postformal thought?
Views human development as occurring in a discontinuous or stage-like fashion as we resolve increasingly complex and age-graded challenges posed by the social environment.
What is Psychosocial Theory?
Cumulative health toll of stressors, including the body’s biological response and secondary health impacts of stress-related changes to behaviors.
What is Allostatic load?