Three-year-old Sara says, "I have three dolls. I have brown hair. I made a tall tower." This demonstrates that Sara is beginning to develop
A) self-esteem.
B) a self-concept.
C) a gender identity.
D) gender typing.
Answer: B
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Lester is 14 years old, and has started the long journey of figuring out what sort of career he will be interested in. He is using his current identity as a source of ideas about careers, thinking about things that he enjoys and is good at. According to Donald Super, Lester is in the ____ phase of career development
a. implementation b. exploration c. specification d. crystallization
All of the following are valid criticisms of Kübler-Ross's theory of dying EXCEPT that
a. there is no standard order to the stages of dying. b. it does not describe any of the emotions experienced by people facing death. c. it does not really take the course of the illness into account. d. it does not account for how individual differences in personality affect reactions to death.
One drawback of structured observations is that
a. the artificial nature of the setting may distort the behavior of interest. b. they cannot be used to study behaviors that occur naturally only rarely. c. they can only be used to study behaviors that occur in public settings. d. they cannot be performed in a laboratory.
Recent ethnographic research reveals that
A) young Yucatec Mayan children decide for themselves how much to sleep and eat, what to wear, when to bathe, and when to start school. B) Yucatec Mayan children and Western children display impressive similarities in their make-believe play, despite very different cultural and social conditions. C) in cultures where parents rarely scaffold their children's learning, children tend to be delayed in early cognitive skills. D) in cultures where parents rarely converse with their children, children tend to frequently display attention-getting behaviors.