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Chapter 8

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Practice Tests

This activity contains 26 questions.

	How many different "selves" are there?   6 4 2 8

	A person who puts honesty above everything else illustrates Strang's:   ideal self basic self-concept social self transitory self-concept

	High self esteem results when:   equilibration takes place one's transitory self becomes fixed one's self concept and self- ideal are the same the self is static

	Drug abuse, eating disorders, and unwed pregnancy are associated with:   low self esteem high self esteem inconsistent self esteem immorality

	The correlation between self-esteem and peer acceptancee is:   near zero perfect positive negative

	Adolescents with low self-esteem:   avoid jobs with leadership roles prefer jobs with leadership roles avoid employment altogether prefer to be closely supervised in their work enviroments

	All of the following are typical significant others EXCEPT:   mothers fathers rock stars friends

	Which schools produce black students with the highest self-esteem?   those with predominantly white students those with predominantly Hispanic students Desegregated schools Segregated schools

	During adolescence, the self esteem of boys ____ than that of girls.   is lower Is higher Is equal to Is triple

	All of the following are among the seven conflicts that Erikson believes adolescents must resolve in order to achieve identity EXCEPT:   temporal perspective vs. time confusion trust vs. mistrust apprenticeship vs. work paralysis role experimentation vs. role fixation

	According to Marcia, healthier adolescents are those that have experienced:   no crisis and are uncommitted to an occupation/ideology a crisis and have become committed to an occupation/ideology no crisis, but are committed to an occupation/ideology a crisis, but are uncommitted to an occupation/ideology

	Of the four ways ethnic group members can participate in a culturally diverse society, which alternative is viewed as the worst?   separation integration marginality assimilation

	Masculinity and femininity are primarily a product of ones:   glandular functions hormone levels genetic makeup culture

	What happens to an individual's sense of gender identity when he or she hits adolescence?   It stays the same as in middle childhood. It becomes more important, especially for boys It becomes less important. It becomes more important, especially for girls.

	Gender role refers to:   a socially determined outward expression of maleness or femaleness an internal sense of being male or female a genetically predetermined personality all of the above

	Rice and Dolgin propose that each person has six different selves.    True  False

	For Carl Rogers, congruence between objective reality and one's self-concept marks the end of personality development.    True  False

	There is a negative correlation between self-esteem and school achievement.    True  False

	Poor parents invariably produce children with low self-esteem.    True  False

	According to Marcia, a mature identity is achieved when a person has experienced a crisis and has become committed to an occupation.    True  False

	Fortress identity is one of the alternate identities proposed by Protinsky.    True  False

	Foreclosure adolescents engage in an informational style of identity searching.    True  False

	An androgynous person is always either gay or lesbian.    True  False

	You have been asked to speak to a PTA about the advantages and disadvantages of teaching children to be androgynous. Make a complete sentence outline of your presentation.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	In a senior seminar in psychology, you are asked to report on the relative importance of the six different selves proposed by Rice and Dolgin. Make a complete sentence outline of your presentation.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	You have just been hired as principal of a high school in a city of fifty thousand. Using what you have learned in this chapter, list and explain the reasons behind five goals that teachers should pursue to maximize the self-esteem of their adolescent students.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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