Identity Development -
What is identity? What are the variety of things that can make up identity?

Erikson's model - how are both the need for an identity and the content of identity from both the person's psychology and society?

Stage models - what are the advantages of using a stage model for identity, rather than seeing it as something static?
How is it a process?

Racial Identity Development:

• What are some of the different ways race can be defined? Which one makes the most sense for this model of identity development?
• How are majority and minority models similar and different?
• Give examples of people at different stages.
• What are examples of the social process of being categorized, and how does that impact psychological development?

2. Use the stages of racial identity to identify at least two parts of the poem/story and which stage they may be at. Explain your reasoning.
I have used Peggy McIntosh reading or Gloria Anzaldua poem
McIntosh reading here

1a. Identity is an on-going story. Give a realistic example using any part of identity (race, gender, profession. SES, etc.) to show how it is both the set of situations one is presented with, the types of ways people respond to them, and how one chooses amongst those ways to respond. Relate to the stages or types of racial identity that are discussed in the text.

2. Choose one of the models of racial identity, the majority or minority identity model. Use an example to illustrate movement from one stage to another stage. Be sure to indicate which stages of which model.

11. Describe either
(1) how the minority identity development model presents a developmental model that is different than asking what a person thinks about race, OR
(2) how is choosing an identity related to the cognitive skills gained in adolescence, or is it? (If you do both, then one will be extra credit.)

Conformity is at its highest when a person's body is changing the most - how is this connection related to Erikson's identity vs. identity diffusion?

16. Describe one of Erikson's stages, describing the issue and how it may be resolved.