James Marcia is a Canadian developmental psychologist who expanded on Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development. His research and writings have largely focused on adolescent development. His work was to identify and classify processes that adolescents go through when they experience identity crises. The four processes that Marcia defined are: A pre-teenager is asked about her political affiliation - whether she is a Republican‚ Democrat‚ or some third party. After thinking about it for a moment
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According to researcher James Marcia‚ there are four identity statuses that people can experience throughout life when they are trying to develop an identity for themselves. Marcia asserts these statuses include identity diffusion‚ moratorium‚ foreclosure‚ and achievement. In the example posted in this assignment‚ the two students‚ Maya and Yolanda‚ seem to be experiencing opposite statuses from each other. Maya is going through the stage of identity moratorium. This means she is exploring her options
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grown up. Instead‚ there is a very long process and it takes a lot of effort. James Marcia delved beyond Erik Erikson’s stage of identity achievement and created four different levels of this achievement. These levels were distinguished by crisis and commitment. Crisis is defined as a period of identity development during which the individual is exploring alternative‚ while commitment is personal investment in identity (Marcia‚ 2003). Identity achievement is obtained when an individual searches for
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Theories of Motivation Arousal: * A person’s state of alertness and mental and physical activation. Arousal Theory: * People are motivated to maintain an optimal level of arousal. * The optimal level is different for all of us. Stimulus Motives: * Motives that cause us to increase stimulation. * Appear to be unlearned‚ * Curiosity‚ exploration‚ and play that occur when your arousal is too low. Yerkes-Dodson Law Yerkes-Dodson Law: * Principle that performance on a
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The Four Theories of Emotion The four main theories of emotion are interesting views of four scholarly psychologists. The theories are the James-Lange theory‚ the Cannon-Bard theory‚ the Schacter-Singer theory‚ and the Lazarus theory. Each of these four theories explains the order of events that occur when an emotion is present. Each theory is a hypothesis waiting to be tested out. Each of these theories is held by a psychologist(s). The psychologists no matter how far past our time they
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Marcia Milgrom Dodge Broadway Directors Project Part 2 Danielle Ibrahim Theatrical Directing 1 April 28‚ 2015 It is fairly often for a Broadway director to simply be a one hit wonder‚ with just one notable Broadway production to list on their resume. But behind every presumed one hit wonder of Broadway‚ there is almost certainly a plethora of other achievements that they have had. Perhaps no example of a Broadway one hit wonder who has
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‘Hair’ by Marcia Aldrich In Marcia Aldrich’s short story ‘Hair’‚ she used one of the most defining aspects of our physical appearance to show how the efforts to tame our hair reflect upon the construct of our identity. This is evident in the line: “But don’t you think hair should reflect who you are?” (p. 55). Throughout the story‚ the obsession (or the lack thereof) of the characters does reflect upon them in many interesting ways. The author says of her mother: “but‚ in my lifetime‚ she never
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distance to explain this ability to experience pleasure. Marcia Eaton puts forward a theory of control that sufficiently explains how we can
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Surrealism Surrealism is an international art movement‚ which draws from the depths of the subconscious mind and explores the human psyche. Frenchman Andre Breton‚ who described Surrealism as ‘pure automatism by which it is intended to express the true function of thought’‚ championed surrealism in the late 1920s’. In this period of time‚ the world was inflicted with the two major wars‚ that filled humanity with horror and unimaginable terror. Some artists of this period were chosen illustrate
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call. It’s your mother‚ and she’s calling to let you know that your beloved family pet has died. You suddenly feel your chest tighten‚ and your eyes well up with tears as you process the sudden‚ overwhelming feeling of loss. According to the James-Lange theory of emotion‚ this feeling of sadness comes from your body’s physiological reaction to the news. Upon hearing about Fluffy’s death‚ your brain sends a signal to your vagus nerves‚ stimulating them‚ and in turn causing that classic sorrowful feeling
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