Exam 9: Middle Childhood: Personality and Sociocultural Development

Ricca had an extremely stressful childhood, having been raised in a series of foster homes, one of which involved child abuse. Yet, Ricca is a confident, well-adjusted teenager. Psychologists would describe Ricca by saying that she was:

Children usually do not become aware of their ethnic identity until after the age of 12.

In the United States today, about ______ of families are single-parent families headed by men.

Jeffrey is writing a paper in which he wishes to use a word to describe "stable personality characteristics." According to the text, the word he should use is:

Selman's view of how friendships develop in middle childhood would be most consistent with which of the following theoretical perspectives?

Making assumptions about what a friend is feeling illustrates the concept called:

If all of Jane's friends like each other and see themselves as being quite similar to each other, a psychologist would most likely describe this group as:

The research method used by Robert Selman in his study of friendship development was most similar to that used by which of the following people?

According to Robert Selman's stage view of friendship development, children in which stage are most likely to define their friends based on geographical considerations?

Piaget's view of morality is based in:

What component of social cognition refers to the customs and conventions used in a social setting or group?

A child's gender identity and gender stereotypes typically emerge during the period of middle childhood.

According to Erikson, what is the psychosocial conflict of middle childhood?

Which of the following statements is most likely to have been made by a boy, rather than a girl?

As children move through middle childhood, their definitions of "self" generally become more:

If you know that Bob is a highly resilient child, even though he has grown up under stressful circumstances, your best guess is that his early life was characterized by:

Single-parent households are much more likely to be headed by women than by men.

Luke views himself negatively, believing that he is not very smart, that he is not good at sports or music, and that other children don't like to play with him. Psychologists would describe Luke as having:

Which of the following theorists held that children's morality develops in two stages: moral realism and moral relativism?

Kohlberg's research method involved watching children act to see if they behaved morally and truthfully.