Test Bank for Development Throughout the Lifespan 7th Edition By Berk
CHAPTER 10
EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE CHILDHOOD
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Francisco, a fifth grader, shows industriousness when he .
A) designs a robot and enters a competition with it
B) says he is popular with most of his peers
C) attributes his poor math skills to bad luck that day
D) disagrees with his parents about cutting his hair
Answer: A
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Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 10.1 What personality changes take place during Erikson’s stage of industry versus inferiority?
Topic: Erikson’s Theory: Industry versus Inferiority
Difficulty Level: Difficult
2. According to Erikson, the danger in middle childhood is , reflected in the pessimism of
children who lack confidence in their ability to do things well.
A) shame
B) mistrust
C) inferiority
D) despair
Answer: C
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.1 What personality changes take place during Erikson’s stage of industry versus inferiority?
Topic: Erikson’s Theory: Industry versus Inferiority
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Erikson‘s sense of combines several developments of middle childhood: a positive but
realistic self-concept, pride in accomplishment, moral responsibility, and cooperative participation with
agemates.
A) trust
B) autonomy
C) identity
D) industry
Answer: D
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.1 What personality changes take place during Erikson’s stage of industry versus inferiority?
Topic: Erikson’s Theory: Industry versus Inferiority
Difficulty Level: Easy
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4. Eleven-year-old Leah has developed a sense of competence at a number of useful skills and tasks. She
has a positive but realistic self-concept and takes pride in her accomplishments. According to Erikson,
Leah has .
A) positively resolved the psychological conflict of middle childhood
B) developed an ideal self that guides her behavior
C) not yet encountered the psychological conflict of middle childhood
D) overcome the conflict of role confusion
Answer: A
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 10.1 What personality changes take place during Erikson’s stage of industry versus inferiority?
Topic: Erikson’s Theory: Industry versus Inferiority
Difficulty Level: Difficult
5. Which self-description is 10-year-old Destiny the most likely to use?
A) ―I like horses and I‘m always good.‖
B) ―I‘m smart in certain subjects like math and science.‖
C) ―I never say mean things.‖
D) ―I run fast and always win races.‖
Answer: B
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Difficult
6. Beginning in middle childhood, children‘s self-descriptions start to emphasize .
A) specific behaviors and observable traits
B) industry over inferiority
C) both negative and positive traits
D) their own physical attributes
Answer: C
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
7. School-age children .
A) use frequent social comparisons
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B) compare their own performance to that of a single peer
C) describe themselves in extreme, all-or-none ways
D) rarely describe their own negative attributes
Answer: A
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
8. Sociologist George Herbert Mead proposed that a emerges when children adopt a view of
the self that resembles others‘ attitudes toward the child.
A) sense of doubt
B) well-organized psychological self
C) superiority complex
D) strong sense of guilt
Answer: B
Page Ref: 337
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
9. are crucial for developing a self-concept based on personality traits.
A) Egocentric views
B) Pessimistic views
C) Interdependent attitudes
D) Perspective-taking skills
Answer: D
Page Ref: 337
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
10. As school-age children move into adolescence, self-concept is increasingly vested in feedback from
.
A) close friends
B) people within the family
C) younger children
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D) the inner self
Answer: A
Page Ref: 337
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
11. Sam is an American fourth grader. Compared to his Asian agemates, when asked to describe himself,
Sam is more likely to say .
A) ―I‘m in sixth grade‖
B) ―I‘m an older brother‖
C) ―I like hockey‖
D) ―My friends really like me‖
Answer: C
Page Ref: 337
Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Difficult
12. Chao is a Chinese second grader. Compared to his Western agemates, when asked to describe himself,
Chao is more likely to say .
A) ―I‘m really smart‖
B) ―I like to read both fiction and nonfiction‖
C) ―I like math and building things‖
D) ―My little brother is crazy about me‖
Answer: D
Page Ref: 337
Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Difficult
13. By age 6 to 7, children in diverse Western cultures have formed at least broad self-
evaluations.
A) two
B) four
C) six
D) eight
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CHAPTER 10
EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE CHILDHOOD
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Francisco, a fifth grader, shows industriousness when he .
A) designs a robot and enters a competition with it
B) says he is popular with most of his peers
C) attributes his poor math skills to bad luck that day
D) disagrees with his parents about cutting his hair
Answer: A
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 10.1 What personality changes take place during Erikson’s stage of industry versus inferiority?
Topic: Erikson’s Theory: Industry versus Inferiority
Difficulty Level: Difficult
2. According to Erikson, the danger in middle childhood is , reflected in the pessimism of
children who lack confidence in their ability to do things well.
A) shame
B) mistrust
C) inferiority
D) despair
Answer: C
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.1 What personality changes take place during Erikson’s stage of industry versus inferiority?
Topic: Erikson’s Theory: Industry versus Inferiority
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Erikson‘s sense of combines several developments of middle childhood: a positive but
realistic self-concept, pride in accomplishment, moral responsibility, and cooperative participation with
agemates.
A) trust
B) autonomy
C) identity
D) industry
Answer: D
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.1 What personality changes take place during Erikson’s stage of industry versus inferiority?
Topic: Erikson’s Theory: Industry versus Inferiority
Difficulty Level: Easy
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4. Eleven-year-old Leah has developed a sense of competence at a number of useful skills and tasks. She
has a positive but realistic self-concept and takes pride in her accomplishments. According to Erikson,
Leah has .
A) positively resolved the psychological conflict of middle childhood
B) developed an ideal self that guides her behavior
C) not yet encountered the psychological conflict of middle childhood
D) overcome the conflict of role confusion
Answer: A
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 10.1 What personality changes take place during Erikson’s stage of industry versus inferiority?
Topic: Erikson’s Theory: Industry versus Inferiority
Difficulty Level: Difficult
5. Which self-description is 10-year-old Destiny the most likely to use?
A) ―I like horses and I‘m always good.‖
B) ―I‘m smart in certain subjects like math and science.‖
C) ―I never say mean things.‖
D) ―I run fast and always win races.‖
Answer: B
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Difficult
6. Beginning in middle childhood, children‘s self-descriptions start to emphasize .
A) specific behaviors and observable traits
B) industry over inferiority
C) both negative and positive traits
D) their own physical attributes
Answer: C
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
7. School-age children .
A) use frequent social comparisons
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B) compare their own performance to that of a single peer
C) describe themselves in extreme, all-or-none ways
D) rarely describe their own negative attributes
Answer: A
Page Ref: 336
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
8. Sociologist George Herbert Mead proposed that a emerges when children adopt a view of
the self that resembles others‘ attitudes toward the child.
A) sense of doubt
B) well-organized psychological self
C) superiority complex
D) strong sense of guilt
Answer: B
Page Ref: 337
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
9. are crucial for developing a self-concept based on personality traits.
A) Egocentric views
B) Pessimistic views
C) Interdependent attitudes
D) Perspective-taking skills
Answer: D
Page Ref: 337
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
10. As school-age children move into adolescence, self-concept is increasingly vested in feedback from
.
A) close friends
B) people within the family
C) younger children
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D) the inner self
Answer: A
Page Ref: 337
Skill Level: Understand
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
11. Sam is an American fourth grader. Compared to his Asian agemates, when asked to describe himself,
Sam is more likely to say .
A) ―I‘m in sixth grade‖
B) ―I‘m an older brother‖
C) ―I like hockey‖
D) ―My friends really like me‖
Answer: C
Page Ref: 337
Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Difficult
12. Chao is a Chinese second grader. Compared to his Western agemates, when asked to describe himself,
Chao is more likely to say .
A) ―I‘m really smart‖
B) ―I like to read both fiction and nonfiction‖
C) ―I like math and building things‖
D) ―My little brother is crazy about me‖
Answer: D
Page Ref: 337
Skill Level: Apply
Objective: 10.2 Describe school-age children’s self-concept and self-esteem, and discuss factors that
affect their achievement-related attributions.
Topic: Self-Understanding
Difficulty Level: Difficult
13. By age 6 to 7, children in diverse Western cultures have formed at least broad self-
evaluations.
A) two
B) four
C) six
D) eight
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