Exam 11: Understanding Self and Others

Preschoolers' self-concepts focus on attitudes and personality traits.

Achievement status is attained for all aspects of identity at the same time.

How popular a child feels in social interactions with parents and peers is called

During adolescence other domains of self-esteem are added. Which of the following is NOT one of these domains?

The attitudes, behaviors, and values that a person believes make him or her a unique individual are referred to as the person's

Fifteen-year-old Gerald realizes that a third person's perspective is influenced by broader personal, social, and cultural contexts. Gerald is in Selman's __________ stage of perspective-taking.

Marcia's achievement identity status

As children grow, their self-concepts become richer and more abstract.

Briefly describe some outcomes associated with low self-esteem.

Adolescents more often become depressed when their parents are emotionally distant and uninvolved.

Which factor accounts for some of the decrease in self-esteem seen during the elementary school years?

During adolescence European-American adolescents have greater self-esteem than their African American peers.

Older adolescents are more likely than younger ones to have achieved an ethnic identity because.

Troy, a college student, is in the achievement status for career. What does that tell you about his identity status for religion and politics?

When describing himself, Kento, a Chinese preschooler, is more likely than David, an American preschooler, to say

Your friends are the parents of a 13-year-old son. They have told you that they are dreading the teen years because adolescence is a time of storm and stress and they aren't sure that they can handle all of the storm and stress that their son will be going through in the next few years. What can you tell them about the facts behind the idea of adolescence as a time of storm and stress?

How do children's descriptions of other people change from childhood to adolescence?

Which of the following is 7-year-old Megan LEAST likely to say when describing a person?

__________ is defined as a person's judgment and feelings about his or her own worth.

Name and briefly describe Selman's five stages of perspective taking.