James has flunked out of high school, has severed all of his ties with family and friends, and has no sense of where he is headed. He also seems to have significant disruptions in his sense of time (some things seem to happen much faster than they really do). According to Erikson, James is experiencing:
A. identity diffusion.
B. negative identity.
C. identity foreclosure.
D. psychosocial moratorium.
A. identity diffusion
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Although Dougie has always loved his job, he now finds that it is no longer a challenge. He has done it for so long that he has become bored with it. Because of that, he has been looking for some alternative assignments. Dougie is attempting to better his situation by a. weakening his environmental press
b. creating a zone of maximum comfort. c. making his life less continuous. d. demonstrating docility.
Research has been conducted in efforts to find the relationship between divorce of parents and the functioning abilities of middle childhood children
One estimation has found _______ of children in stepfamilies have serious problems in at least one aspect of functioning compared to _________ of their peers in non-divorced families. 45%; 30% 20%; 10% 30%; 20% 10%; 5%
Following a divorce, a child may exhibit all of the following EXCEPT
a) sleep disturbance. b) depression. c) ADD/ADHD. d) anxiety.