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Child and Adolescent Development 352 - Applied Social Development » Spring 2022 » Quiz Chapter 6 Self

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Question #1

When minority youth call a member of their own ethnic group an "oreo" or a "coconut" they are

A. displaying strong racial prejudice

B. illustrating the conflicts minority youth experience between the demands of the majority culture and those of their subculture

C. contributing in an adaptive way to the person's identity achievement

D. all of these

Question #2

Effective praise that will promote children’s self-esteem is

A. focused on the child’s efforts, not the child’s performance

B. specific and sincere, not global or exaggerated

C. based on things the child can change (e.g., strategies and progress) rather than things the child cannot change (e.g., intelligence and attractiveness)

D. all of these

Question #3

Compared with the personal stories told by Chinese children, in their personal stories American children

A. refer to their social group

B. describe themselves in more neutral terms

C. refer to their preferences

D. refer more to interpersonal relations

Question #4

Children's self-concepts become more and more ____ over the course of childhood as they begin to incorporate ____ into their self-descriptions.

A. abstract; psychological attributes

B. concrete; behavioral attributes

C. public; private knowledge

D. positive; socially desirable activities

Question #5

Children describe themselves in terms of their competencies like “I am good at climbing, scootering, and counting" at what age?

A. 11 years and older

B. 8-10 years old

C. 3-4 years old

D. 5-7 years old

Question #6

The description "I am well liked and will usually help others but sometimes I'm cruel and inconsiderate" was most likely made by a(n)

A. preschool child

B. 11-12-year-old preadolescent

C. adolescent (teenager)

D. 9-year-old

Question #7

A significant change in self-descriptions that occurs between ages 8 and 10 is a shift from

A. inner qualities to action statements

B. action statements to proverbial characterizations of self

C. subjective to objective self-evaluations

D. physical characteristics to inner qualities

Question #8

The earliest indication of true self-recognition occurs when children

A. recognize themselves in a photo or a mirror

B. define themselves as "little" rather than "big"

C. know for sure whether they are boys or girls

D. reach for and touch their mirror images

Question #9

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

A. has reached Erikson's stage of "initiative vs. guilt"

B. has a sense of categorical self

C. has achieved self-recognition

D. distinguishes his public and private selves

Question #10

High self-esteem helps prevent children from

A. failing in school

B. none of these

C. smoking

D. engaging in early sex

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