Exam 11: Identity: the Self, Gender, and Moral Development

According to Erikson, the developmental crisis of adolescence is the crisis of

In Phinney's stages of ethnic/racial identity development, a person in the diffuse ethnic identity stage is most likely to say,

Which domain accounts for the majority of the variance or difference in global self-esteem among adolescents?

When children have the belief that a girl will become an adult woman and a boy will become an adult man, but they are still not clear that a girl playing with trucks does not become a boy or that a boy playing with dolls doesn't become a girl, they are in Kohlberg's __________ stage of gender development.

An explanation for why cross-cultural research on moral development has not found that everyone reaches the highest stage of moral reasoning is that

Which of the following is the best description of the typical pattern of change in self-esteem from childhood through late adolescence?

Identical male twins are more likely to be similar in sexual preference than non-identical male twins.

At what age are children typically able to understand the differences of their racial and ethnic status based on biological features and social features such as speech patterns and lifestyle?

According to behaviorism, as children are growing up

Once children have gender constancy, they become more flexible about external things like clothing and hairstyles.

Why do individuals from collectivist cultures develop visual perspective-taking earlier than individuals from individualistic cultures?

In comparison to Chinese children, Euro-American children use

One reason why preschoolers have such positive views of themselves is that

At least three-quarters of LGBT youth are optimistic about their future lives. Describe three types of stress they may have to cope with along the way to a better life.

The psychoanalytic explanation for homosexuality is based upon

Children largely learn the correct use of pronouns such as "you" and "me" through imitation.

Research on gender differences in moral reasoning has consistently found that boys use a morality of justice and girls use a morality of care in making moral decisions.

List five words that describe you, then list five words a preschooler might use to describe herself. How do these differ and in what ways are they the same? What does this show about how self-concept develops?

In many cultures, the movement of a young person from childhood to adulthood is marked by a(n)

When a red mark is placed on the nose of a two-year-old and the child sees herself in a mirror, the child will react by touching her own nose when she