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Adolescence, 6/e
Laurence Steinberg, Temple University

Psychosocial Development During Adolescence
Identity

Chapter Overview

Major Section

Study Guide Features

  
I.Identity as an Adolescent IssueLearning Objectives: 1
 

Important terms: self conception, self-

esteem

Multiple choice questions: 1, 4

Matching questions: 2, 7

  
II.Changes in Self-Conceptions

Learning Objectives: 2

 

Important terms: false-self behavior

Multiple choice questions: 2, 30

Fill in the blank questions: 2

  
A.Dimensions of personality

Learning Objectives: 3

in adolescence

Important terms: Five Factor Model,

 

Big Five

Multiple choice questions: 3, 34

Fill in the blank questions: 3

Matching questions: 8

  
III.Changes in Self-EsteemLearning Objectives: 4-
 

Important terms: self-consciousness,

self-image stability,

barometric self-esteem,

baseline self-esteem

Multiple choice questions: 5-6

Fill in the blank questions: 4, 5, 25, 31

Matching questions: 9, 14

  
A.Sex, class and ethnicLearning Objectives: 5
differences in self-esteemMultiple choice questions: 7, 32
 Fill in the blank questions: 6-7
  
B.Ethnic Differences in Self-Esteem:

Learning Objectives: 5

Studying Means versus

Important terms: analysis of

Studying Correlation'svariance, independent variable,
 

correlation coefficient

Multiple choice questions: 9,10,33

Fill in the blank questions: 8, 24

Matching questions: 3, 5, 10, 18

  
C.Antecedents and consequences

Multiple choice questions: 8, 11

of high elf-esteem

 
  
IV.The Adolescent Identity Crisis

Important terms: Eric Erikson,

 

sense of identity,

Matching questions: 1

  
A.Erikson's theoretical framework

Learning Objectives: 6

 

Important terms: psychosocial crisis

Multiple choice questions: 12-13

  
B.Identity versus identity diffusion

Important terms: identity versus

 

identity diffusion

Fill in the blank questions: 9

  
C.The social context of identity

Important terms: psychosocial

 

developmentmaturation

Fill in the blank questions: 10

Matching questions: 6

  

D.Resolving the identity crisis

 
  
E.Problems in identity development

Learning Objectives: 7

 

Important terms: identity diffusion,

identity foreclosure,

negative identity

Multiple choice questions: 14-18

Fill in the blank questions: 12-13

Matching questions: 13, 15, 19

F. Are There Sex Differences In  

The Route To A Sense of Identity

 

  
V. Research on Identity Development 
  
A.Determining an adolescent's

Learning Objectives: 8

identity status

Important terms: James Marcia

 

Multiple choice questions: 19, 20, 28, 29

Fill in the blank questions: 14, 15-17

Matching questions: 16

  
B.Studying identity development over time

Multiple choice questions: 21

 

Fill in the blank questions: 18

  

C.Shifts in identity status

 
  

VI.The Development of Ethnic Identity

 
  
A.The process of ethnic identity

Learning Objectives: 9

 

developmentImportant terms: ethnic identity,

racial socialization

Multiple choice questions: 23

Fill in the blank questions: 19

Matching questions: 12

  
B.Alternative orientations to ethnic identity

Learning Objectives: 9

 

Important terms: biculturalism,

code switching

Multiple choice questions: 22, 24

Fill in the blank questions: 20-21

Matching questions: 12

  
VII.Gender Role Development

Learning Objectives: 10

 

Important terms: androgeny

Fill in the blank questions: 22

Matching questions: 11

  
A.Gender-role socialization in

Learning Objectives: 10

adolescence

Important terms: gender

 

intensification hypothesis

Multiple choice questions: 25, 27

Fill in the blank questions: 23

  
B.Masculinity, femininity and androgeny

Learning Objectives: 10

 

Multiple choice questions: 26

Fill in the blank questions: 23