Erikson
Marcia on Identity Development
Ginsberg and Gilligan
Kohlberg
Boys or Girls, Men or Women?
100

His title for Stage 5, covering the adolescent period

What is Identity versus identity-confusion?

100

The 2 characteristics that Marcia focuses on in describing adolescent identity development, each of which can be present or absent, and form the 4 categories for his framework.

What are Crisis/Exploration and Commitment?

100

The number of stages (Gilligan) and periods (Ginzberg) used to describe moral development and career choice.

What is 3?

100

The number of Levels and the number of Stages making up Kohlberg's Sequence of Moral Reasoning.

What are 3 and 6?

100

The adolescent growth spurt begins earlier in this group, at around age 10.

What are girls?

200

His title for the stage before adolescence, covering ages 6-12 years.

What is Industry versus inferiority?

200

The acronym MAMA stands for these categories, that an adolescent often moves between in a cycle as they work out an identity.

What are moratorium---identity achievement---moratorium---identity achievement?

200

The title for Ginzberg's middle period of career choice, usually coinciding with adolescence when a young person begins to think in pragmatic terms about jobs and how their abilities might fit with a job's requirements. 

What is the tentative period?


200

The titles of Kohlberg's 3 Levels.

What are preconventional, conventional, and postconventional?

200

Early maturation is largely a plus for this group.

What are boys?

300

He suggest that this is a period during which adolescents take time off from upcoming responsibilities and explore various roles and possibilities.

What is "psychological moratorium"?

300

Marcia's name for the category when commitment is present(or high) and crisis is absent(or low), meaning a young person has chosen a field to go into at an early age without exploring other possibilities.

What is identity foreclosure?

300

Gilligan titles her first stage of Moral Development in Women "Orientation to Individual Survival and says girls first concentrate on what is best for them, and then transition from selfishness to this.

What is responsibility?

300

Kohlberg's theory provides a good account of the development of moral judgements, but the links with these are less strong.

What are moral behaviors?

300

Later physical maturation is often a plus for this group.

What are girls?

400
According to critics, Erikson's view of adolescent development is based on male oriented concepts of this and this.

What is individuality and competitiveness?

400

The category where Marcia suggests teens experience high anxiety and psychological conflict, yet are often lively and appealing.  These teens typically settle on and identity after something of a struggle.

What is Moratorium?

400

The period Ginzberg describes as occurring during early adulthood, usually involving actual experience on the job or training for a profession. 

What is the realistic period?

400

Critics point out that Kohlberg's research is based on this gender and these cultures, making his framework  more suited to describing moral development of those whose background match his research subjects.

What is the male gender and Western cultures?

400

This group is more likely than the other to think of themselves as above average in mathematical ability, competitiveness, and emotional health. 

What are men?

500

Arguing that men and women move through the stage of adolescence differently, Erikson argues that men first do this, before committing to an intimate relationship.

What is developing a stable identity?

500

The category described by Marcia in which adolescents neither explore nor commit to consider various alternatives, which impairs their ability to form close relationships.

What is Identity diffusion?

500

Gilligan sees this as the most sophisticated level of moral reasoning, when women make a transition from goodness to truth, and come to see that hurting anyone---including themselves, is immoral.

What is the Morality of nonviolence?

500

According to Kohlberg, individuals progress through his stages in a fixed order and are unable to reach the highest stage until adolescence due to deficits in this, that must be overcome.

What is cognitive development?

500

This group typically score lower on tests of moral judgements using Kohlberg's stage sequence.

What are women?