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Adolescence, 6/e
Laurence Steinberg, Temple University

Psychosocial Development During Adolescence
Identity

Essay Questions



1

Make believe you are a six-year-old child. How might you describe yourself? Compare that with how you describe yourself currently. What are the essential developmental differences in these two self-descriptions?
2

Consider the personality dimensions included in the Five-Factor Model of personality. How would each of these dimensions fit with the following occupations: engineer, teacher, police officer, artist.
3

Why do programs designed to raise self-esteem, and in so doing raise academic achievement, fail?
4

How would the "identity crisis" differ for an adolescent in a traditional culture from an adolescent in an industrialized culture? Are there any similarities?
5

How would you design an educational environment that would nurture "the different voice" of females that Gilligan argues begins to emerge in early adolescence?