Exam 61: The Search for Identity

Which of the following is NOT a strategy that adults can adopt to help adolescents acquire psychological maturity?

Upset and turmoil are the defining characteristics of adolescence.

Probably the most important strategy to remember in working with teenagers is to treat them as "almost adults."

__________ refers broadly to one's evaluation of oneself.

Identity moratorium refers to making a commitment only because someone else has prescribed a particular choice-being outer-directed.

The desire to make a choice at some time in the future but being unable to do so is referred to as __________.

__________ is/are a complex way of constructing the self as a result of experience across domains that incorporate evaluation of the self by self and others.

According to Erikson, the development of an adult identity requires all of the following EXCEPT __________.

Adolescents experiencing __________ lack a cohesive, consistent whole; they simply do not have a genuine identity of their own.

The adolescent years, from about ages 12 to 18, have come to be identified with Erikson's description of them as the time of "identity versus identity confusion."

The ability to commit oneself to choices about identity and maintaining that commitment under all conditions is referred to as __________.