Question 1

What role does social comparison play in self-concept in middle childhood?

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Question 2

At least three-quarters of LGBT youth are optimistic about their future lives. Describe three types of stress they may have to cope with along the way to a better life.

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Question 3

Describe three rites of passage that different cultural groups use to mark the movement through puberty. Create a new rite of passage that might work in your own family or group to mark this developmental change.

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Question 4

Based on what we now know about how self-esteem develops, if you were a fourth-grade teacher, how would you promote the development of self-esteem in your students? What would you avoid doing?

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Question 5

What is heteronomous morality and what is autonomous morality? Provide an example of each.

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Question 6

Compare Kohlberg's ideas about gender identity development to gender schema theory.

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Question 7

List five words that describe you, then list five words a preschooler might use to describe herself. How do these differ and in what ways are they the same? What does this show about how self-concept develops?

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Question 8

Use James Marcia's types of identity to describe various ways in which teens relate to their own ethnic identity.

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Question 9

Compare Kohlberg's and Gilligan's ideas of what morality is and how it develops.

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Quiz 11: Identity: the Self, Gender, and Moral Development