PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: James Marcia, Wax Paper, Identity Formation

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

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Lecture 16: psychosocial stages and the struggle for identity: To understand erikson"s psychosocial stage theory, to understand marcia"s system of categorizing identity status, to explore the relations of identity and intimacy status. Koestner: when he was 18, he knew he had to get away from home to find himself. He applied to 6 universities and he was most excited about kolgate university. A day after he accepted, his mom came up to him and told him to stay closer to home. After two years at columbia, he knew he had made the wrong choice. He did well in school, but worked at macy"s 15 hrs/week. The people he worked with seemed to want to help him develop and give him advice. One fellow on a slow day asked what music koestner liked. He took wax paper and wrote out 100 albums he should listen to.