Exam 11: Development of the Self-Concept

Ayn Rand's 1950 novel, The Fountainhead, was about a brilliant architect who struggled to design and build an office tower in an unpopular style he favored. His perseverance showed that his level of ____ was high.

Promoting racial/ethnic pride among minority teenagers is a way to help them gain this ethnic identity status:

Therapy to encourage mastery and avoid learned helplessness is called

Discuss Dweck's theory of learned helplessness with regard to achievement motivation, noting (a) the kinds of causal attributions involved and (b) school experiences that might lead to an attitude of learned helplessness. What kind of experience has been found to be effective in countering learned helplessness?

The evaluative dimension of self-concept is called

"I got an A on the test because I studied hard." This is a(n) ____ attribution.

Prior to the age of seven, many children's attitudes about achievement is summarized as,

Discuss how peer influences can enhance or undermine parental efforts to encourage academic achievement.

Identify three of the first dimensions that toddlers typically incorporate into their categorical self.

What are some of the difficulties in identity development faced by mixed-ethnicity adolescents and cross-ethnic adoptees in Caucasian adoptive homes?

Lawrence Steinberg evaluated the impact of peer influences on academic achievement motivation. He found that

Securely attached children excel at achievement-oriented tasks because, when compared with others, they are

Studies of self-esteem have found that adolescent girls who have the highest self-esteem are those who

Peer influences affect children strongly at various age levels and also in various areas. School achievement is an important area of activity. Describe how peer influences on school achievement differ across ethnic groups and possible reasons for those ethnic differences.

Shortly after toddlers show self-recognition, they begin to show evidence of the "categorical self" and the ways people differ. The first dimensions that are incorporated into a toddler's self-concept are

Scholastic competence, social acceptance, and behavioral conduct are all components in Harter's

Research conducted in Australia, Canada, and the US has revealed that many Caucasian children have knowledge of ethnic stereotypes and display some prejudicial attitudes by the age of about _____ years.

What is "extended" in the extended self?

Discuss the recent controversy about the importance of self-esteem, and summarize some of the related research.

African-American teenagers tend to do well in school achievement when