Taking It to the Net

1. Your roommate returns from the computer lab and announces he took a self-esteem test on the web and scored really high. Knowing something about test reliability and validity you are really skeptical about such tests. What will you advise your roommate about the reliability and validity of on-line self-esteem tests?

http://www.barksdale.org (Click on Self-esteem Evaluation)

http://www.valdosta.peachnet.edu/~whuitt/psy702/intro/testval.html

2. Your sister returns home from her first few weeks at college and seems to be not as confident and self-assured as she was when she left. She complains about her friends at school tugging her in different directions, about feeling awkward in various social situations, and of having lost control of her attention and concentration. Is it possible that she is undergoing a change in identity?

http://www.penpages.psu.edu/penpages_reference/28507/285071660.html

3. In Erikson's theory, the quality of resolution of earlier crises impacts on the quality of resolution of later crises. What might be some of the outcomes of a less desirable resolution of the identity crisis on the resolution of the intimacy crisis that follows it?

http://nc.essortment.com/erikeriksonpsy_zjw.htm