Erik Erikson theorized that adolescents avoid making commitments in an effort to avoid:
a. identity foreclosure
b. autonomy
c. role predictability
d. identity conflict
A
Identity foreclosure is the process of avoiding making decisions before all of the options are known. The uncertainty about who they are, leads adolescent to associate with groups, which helps provide them with identity and clear-cut good and bad views of the world.
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