Identity Diffusion Refers to the Identity Status in Which Adolescents

question 147

Multiple Choice

Identity diffusion refers to the identity status in which adolescents _____.

• A) pause during their identity formation to explore alternatives
• B) form their identity prematurely
• C) do not commit to goals and fail to take on any role
• D) understand who they are as connected to everything they have learned

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Definitions:

Living Things

Organisms that exhibit the characteristics of life, including growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

An early 19th-century French biologist who proposed the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics as a mechanism for evolutionary change.

Evolution

The change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

Great Chain of Being

An ancient and medieval concept that all forms of life and matter in the universe have a precise order and hierarchy, from the lowest forms of matter to the highest spiritual beings.