PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: James Marcia, The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 Film), Structured Interview

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Winter on traits and motives read the intro and discussion, focus on class discussion. Marcia on erikson stages well-written but challenging article. Simultaneously begin the narcissism book and read it over the next 5-6 weeks (no need to read the appendix) **we will be covering 2 and 3 today (life narrative is a couple of weeks away) Prof"s identity crisis anecdote: mom, the gee and the moonies. Prof describes identity crisis as a point at which you feel you"re not moving forward or you don"t know what your identity is. When he was 18, he knew he had to get away from home to find himself. Nyc and 3 outside nyc), had a competitive application and he received a big scholarship to go to kolgate university. He describes it as a pastural place nestled in the woods with lots of green space and most importantly, far away from his family.