Exam 3: Personal, Social, and Moral Development

Students' self-concepts and self-esteem related to school subject matter affect their learning and performance in the classroom.Imagine that you have several students with extremely low self-esteem regarding their ability to perform in your class.Simply giving them encouragement-for example, "You can do it if you try!"-may not be especially effective.Keeping in mind the factors that affect self-concept and self-esteem, describe three different strategies that you might use to enhance your students' confidence so that they can succeed in school.Describe each of these strategies in terms of specific things that you might do in the classroom.

After being labelled a "geek" by the very popular students at Rider High School, Dov asked five of his gamer friends to wear "geek pride" t-shirts to school.Dov's request is likely to create a:

Which of the following best demonstrates induction?

Which one of the following best illustrates Erikson's stage of identity vs.role confusion?

Jules is discovering that by being able to write all his letters, he is winning the approval of his teacher.Without knowing anything else about Jules, the best guess is that he is in Erikson's stage of:

Which of the following is not a research finding stemming from Kohlberg's theory:

The textbook suggests that the effects of peer pressure have been overrated.Three of the following are factors that ameliorate, or "soften," the potential effects of peer pressure.Which statement is not one of these factors?

According to your text, what is the role that culture plays in social development?

Figure 3.3 in your textbook is titled "Educational mission and vision statements of Canadian provinces and territories".According to the information in this figure, what sentiment is reflected in most of Canadian mission statements regarding the role of schooling?

Jean-Louis, a fourteen-year old who has a learning disability, is starting at a new school on Monday after a move to a new city.What recommendation would you give his parents to help him stay away from peer pressure?

Which one of the following best illustrates a norm that children acquire through the socialization process?

According to your textbook, prosocial behaviour is:

Sixteen-year-old Lisa has known since she was four years old that she will become a teacher.Her grandmother was a teacher, and her mother and two aunts are teachers.She has never even thought about any other occupation.Lisa can best be described as showing:

According to Erik Erikson, students' ability to trust those around them stems from:

We can most effectively enhance students' self-concepts and self-esteem when we:

Friendships are especially important in social development because children and adolescents:

Considering Eisenberg's research regarding the development of prosocial behaviour, at what age level do most students begin to show genuine empathy regarding the well-being of others?

According to your text, what is self-esteem?

Many of the students at Buchanan Junior High know that John and Sara have been "going out" for the past two months.Given what we know about students' early dating habits, it is most likely that John and Sara:

Which one of the following individuals is in Kohlberg's law and order stage of moral reasoning?