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Self-Concept
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Understanding of who they are as a person
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Ethgender
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Refers to the joint influence of race and gender
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Identity vs. Identity Confusion Stage
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The period during which teenagers seek to determine what is unique and distinctive about themselves
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Psychological Moratorium
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Is a period during which adolescents take time off from the upcoming responsibilities of adulthood and explore various roles and possibilities
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Commitment
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Is psychological investment in a course of action or an ideology
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Identity Achievement
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The status of adolescents who commit to a particular identity following a period of crisis during which they consider various alternatives
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Identity Foreclosure
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The status of adolescents who prematurely commit to an identity without adequately exploring alternatives
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Moratorium
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The status of adolescents who may have explored various identity alternatives to some degree, but have not yet committed themselves
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Identity Diffusion
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The status of adolescents in this category neither explore nor commit to consider various alternatives
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MAMA Cycle
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People that move back and forth between moratorium and identity achievement
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Cultural Assimilation Model
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View holds that individual cultural identities should be assimilated into a unified culture in the US
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Pluralistic Society Model
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Suggests that US society is made up of diverse, coequal cultural groups that should preserve their individual cultural features
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Bicultural Identity
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In which a minority group member form in which they draw from their own cultural identity while integrating themselves into the dominant culture
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Cluster Suicide
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One suicide leads to attempts by others to kill themselves
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Autonomy
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Having independence and a sense of control over one’s life
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