Deck 3: A Social Psychology of Identities and Their Formation

Question 1

Which of the following is a common misconception about the Eriksonian approach to identity formation?

A) Eriksonians assume that identities are fixed and remain unchanged in adulthood
B) Eriksonians believe people do not have a "core identity"
C) Only people with a sense of individuality "have an identity"
D) All of the above

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What does research using the Twenty-Statements Test suggest has changed since the 1950s?

A) people pay more attention to their ego identity
B) people are more concerned with social identity
C) a move from the institutional self to an impulsive self
D) a move away from the impulsive self to the institutional self

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The term default individualization refers to

A) passive adaptations to late-modern society
B) people continuously trying to present pleasing impressions to others
C) people being inactive in laying the basis for a rewarding adult identity
D) all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following terms did Turner use that approximates the scientific measurement of the "role self"?

A) institutional self
B) impulsive self
C) postmodern self
D) emergent self

Question 5

Which of the following is most relevant to social identity formation patterns in late-modern societies?

A) individualized identity displays
B) identity management of role locations
C) identity-related discoveries and experiences
D) ethnic identity conflicts

Question 6

What level of identity is most likely to be the focus of teenagers in their "identity displays"?

A) ego identity
B) social identity
C) ethnic identity
D) personal identity

Question 7

In the Personality and Social Structure Perspective (PSSP) model, how do interactional behaviors affect personality processes? Through

A) Socialization and social control
B) Internalizations
C) Self-presentations
D) Collective activities

Question 8

In the Personality and Social Structure Perspective (PSSP) model, what takes place when social structural contexts affect interactional behaviors?

A) Socialization and social control
B) Internalizations
C) Self-presentations
D) Collective activities

Question 9

The social structure and personality perspective, symbolic interactionism, and psychological social psychology are considered by James House to be

A) competing paradigms in developmental psychology
B) the fundamental approaches to studying identity
C) the three faces of social psychology
D) the three faces of Identity Studies

Question 10

To conflate two different levels of analysis is to commit the error of

A) reductionism
B) psychologism
C) sociologism
D) all of the above