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Chapter 8 Objectives
- Understand how pubertal, cognitive, and social transitions affect an adolescent's identity development.
- Understand self-conception and the changes that take place between childhood and adolescence.
- Understand the critical personality dimensions of the Big Five model.
- Understand barometric and baseline self-esteem, and the effects of each during early, middle, and late adolescence.
- Understand gender, class and ethnic differences in self-esteem.
- Understand Erikson's theoretical approach to identity development during adolescence.
- Understand Erikson's three major problems of adolescent identity development.
- Understand Marcia's four identity status categories and how they compare to Erikson's theory of identity development.
- Understand the importance of ethnic identity and the alternative orientations proposed by Phinney and her colleagues.
- Understand sex-role development and its impact on identity development.
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