Exam 6: Development of the Self and Social Cognition

The finding that minority preschoolers often display a pro-White bias and associate more positive characteristics with Whites than with their own ethnic group most likely implies that

Research indicates that identity achievement is a significant milestone which paves the way for _____ .

One excellent predictor of the self-esteem of preschool children is _____ .

When asked whether he had thought about his niche in his multiethnic society, Jorge says, "Hey, I'm Hispanic and so I hang with the Hispanic crowd; What's to think about?" Jorge's ethnic identity status is _____.

If a young child points to his image in a photograph and says "me" after simply looking intently at photos of other children, we might take this behavior as evidence that the child

Recent research suggests that _____ may be particularly important at fostering the development of role-taking skills and interpersonal understanding.

Unlike older children, 2- to 3-year-olds often fail to retrieve a sticker from their heads if their first glimpse of it (on videotape) is delayed by even a few minutes. This finding suggests that their concept of self is one that could be described as _____ .

As compared to preschoolers, grade-school children are more likely

Tomika attempts to affect her mother's desire to punish her for roughhousing and breaking a lamp by trying to change her mental state, pleading, "But mommy, it fell and broke by itself." Tomika is

Achieving self-recognition depends on

Minority youth who have an "achieved" ethnic identity

Rambo has graduated from high school and joined the Army to give him some time to decide whether to go to college and what career to pursue. These decisions have been weighing upon him heavily for the past few months. Rambo is in the _____ identity status.

One clear clue that 1-year-olds view themselves as separate from their companions is their tendency to

Minority youth from collectivist backgrounds who live in multicultural societies such as the United States

Research on the adolescent identity crisis reveals that

How does the "content" of people's self-concepts in individualistic societies differ from that of people in collectivist societies? What implications might these differences have for one's global self-esteem?

One finding which suggests that social experiences contribute heavily to the development of self-recognition is that

When asked to describe the aspects of self of which he is most proud, J. says "I'm a good father; I always help my work group accomplish its objectives; and I try never to gloat just because I play very well on the company basketball team." Cross-cultural research on the content of persons' self-concepts implies that Joe is most likely

Development of a belief-desire theory of mind implies that a child thinks that

When a 4-year-old sees a week-old video of himself with a funny looking sticker on his head and he fails to retrieve it, he is communicating his sense of