Exam 11: Development of the Self-Concept

The thinking people display about the thoughts, feelings, motives, and behaviors of themselves and others is

Holly is a college student from a ministerial family. Her parents and grandparents were ministers, and she, too, accepts her future career in the ministry. Holly's identity status is

A college's slogan is, "The tassel is worth the hassle." This has bad implications because it

Attribution retraining is done to encourage mastery and to avoid learned helplessness. A slogan of this retraining might be,

INDIVIDUALISM is to COLLECTIVISM as ____ is to ____.

A slogan for the false self-behaviors of adolescence would be,

Parents and teachers are often reminded that adult praise of the child is helpful for the child's self-esteem and achievement, but this may be an oversimplification. What styles of praise are helpful, and what styles may be counterproductive?

Describe each of Selman-s five stages of social perspective taking.

Self-esteem begins

At age 12, most adolescents have the ____ identity status, and by age 24, they have the _____ status.

Gossip is overheard: "Bonzo never gets a second date with any woman because he is totally clueless about others' thoughts, needs, or wants." Bonzo is seen by others as being deficient in

The child's willingness to work hard to gain important objectives in school or elsewhere is called

A slogan for the principle of personal agency would be,

Achieving a sense of personal identity as a teenager is promoted by

When talking about their friends, teenagers tend to take into account

A slogan of Selman's role-taking theory would be,

Author Ernest Hemingway wrote, "If there is anything another culture will give you, it is a different point of view." Hemingway would be interested especially in Selman's theory of

Which of these is NOT among Weiner's four types of achievement attributions?

Which of these is NOT one of the three main factors affecting the child's mastery of motivation/achievement?

During adolescence, new dimensions become important contributors to global self-esteem, and these dimensions affect the self-appraisals of males and females in different ways. Identify factors associated with high- and low self-esteem in both adolescent males and females.