Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Chapter 2: Classical Theories of Social and Personality Development 21
Chapter 3: Recent Perspectives on Social and Personality Development 45
Chapter 4: Emotional Development and Temperament 67
Chapter 5: Establishment of Intimate Relationships and Their 95
Implications for Future Development
Chapter 6: Development of the Self and Social Cognition 127
Chapter 7: Achievement 161
Chapter 8: Sex Differences, Gender-Role Development, and Sexuality 189
Chapter 9: Aggression and Antisocial Conduct 227
Chapter 10: Altruism and Moral Development 259
Chapter 11: The Family 299
,Chapter 12:Extrafamilial Influences I: Television, Computers, and 335
Schooling
Chapter 13: Extrafamilial Influences II: Peers as Socialization Agents 367
Chapter 14: Epilogue: Putting the Pieces Together 405
, TO THE INSTRUCTOR
This Instructor’s Manual is provided for use in your preparation of tests to assess
student mastery of Social and Personality Development (6th edition) by David R.
Shaffer. The test bank contains more than 1,500 multiple choice items and 130
essay/discussion questions.
Materials contained in the manual are organized by chapter. Each chapter’s
entry begins with a detailed outline of the chapter content followed by test items as
described below.
Multiple Choice Items
My intent was to provide a generous supply of multiple choice items, thereby
allowing instructors who teach more than one section of the course to construct parallel
forms of an examination. These multiple choice items were designed to assess student
knowledge of (a) theoretical concepts, (b) important empirical findings, and (c) the
mechanisms or processes that underlie developmental changes. The items contain either
four or five alternatives, with the correct answer for each item indicated by an asterisk
(*). Page numbers indicating the location of the correct answer are provided above the
item of each multiple choice question. If an item requires the student to connect
knowledge that is separated by more than a page in the text, both page references are
included for that item. In addition to providing a greater number of items than had
appeared in past test banks, the current volume also includes a substantial number of
word problem (or scenario) items that require students to apply knowledge they have
learned.
The multiple choice questions range in difficulty from very easy to very hard,
and most have been item-analyzed on at least one class to ensure that the more difficult
of these items truly discriminate students who do well on exams from those who make
lower scores. The difficulty level of many of the five-alternative items often can be
adjusted (downward) by omitting one of the alternatives. The items tap all of the major
, theories, concepts, findings, and developmental processes discussed in each chapter,
and often more than one question is provided to assess knowledge of particular
contents. With careful item selection, instructors should be able to construct tests that
adequately and accurately reflect the domain of social and personality development
covered in each chapter of the text.
Essay items
The essay items are much broader in scope than the multiple choice questions. I
have found these problems to be useful stimulants for class discussion as well as
alternative means to the multiple choice items for assessing what students have gleaned
from the text. Accompanying the essay items are page references for the text material
that is most directly pertinent to each question.
My experience suggests that students should be allotted approximately one
minute for each multiple choice item. The essays, of course, differ considerably in scope
and may require as little as five minutes to as much as twenty minutes per item.
On-line quiz items
Each chapter contains 10 multiple choice items and 3 essay items that I have
made available to students as on-line practice tests. Each item so selected is indicated in
the manual with the symbol WWW.
I have encouraged my own students to take these admittedly noncomprehensive
on-line quizzes to gain some idea of how well they are mastering chapter contents. To
further encourage this kind of self-assessment, I have, at times, told my own classes that
I would select a limited number of exam items from those appearing in the on-line
quizzes of the chapters over which they are being examined.
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Chapter 2: Classical Theories of Social and Personality Development 21
Chapter 3: Recent Perspectives on Social and Personality Development 45
Chapter 4: Emotional Development and Temperament 67
Chapter 5: Establishment of Intimate Relationships and Their 95
Implications for Future Development
Chapter 6: Development of the Self and Social Cognition 127
Chapter 7: Achievement 161
Chapter 8: Sex Differences, Gender-Role Development, and Sexuality 189
Chapter 9: Aggression and Antisocial Conduct 227
Chapter 10: Altruism and Moral Development 259
Chapter 11: The Family 299
,Chapter 12:Extrafamilial Influences I: Television, Computers, and 335
Schooling
Chapter 13: Extrafamilial Influences II: Peers as Socialization Agents 367
Chapter 14: Epilogue: Putting the Pieces Together 405
, TO THE INSTRUCTOR
This Instructor’s Manual is provided for use in your preparation of tests to assess
student mastery of Social and Personality Development (6th edition) by David R.
Shaffer. The test bank contains more than 1,500 multiple choice items and 130
essay/discussion questions.
Materials contained in the manual are organized by chapter. Each chapter’s
entry begins with a detailed outline of the chapter content followed by test items as
described below.
Multiple Choice Items
My intent was to provide a generous supply of multiple choice items, thereby
allowing instructors who teach more than one section of the course to construct parallel
forms of an examination. These multiple choice items were designed to assess student
knowledge of (a) theoretical concepts, (b) important empirical findings, and (c) the
mechanisms or processes that underlie developmental changes. The items contain either
four or five alternatives, with the correct answer for each item indicated by an asterisk
(*). Page numbers indicating the location of the correct answer are provided above the
item of each multiple choice question. If an item requires the student to connect
knowledge that is separated by more than a page in the text, both page references are
included for that item. In addition to providing a greater number of items than had
appeared in past test banks, the current volume also includes a substantial number of
word problem (or scenario) items that require students to apply knowledge they have
learned.
The multiple choice questions range in difficulty from very easy to very hard,
and most have been item-analyzed on at least one class to ensure that the more difficult
of these items truly discriminate students who do well on exams from those who make
lower scores. The difficulty level of many of the five-alternative items often can be
adjusted (downward) by omitting one of the alternatives. The items tap all of the major
, theories, concepts, findings, and developmental processes discussed in each chapter,
and often more than one question is provided to assess knowledge of particular
contents. With careful item selection, instructors should be able to construct tests that
adequately and accurately reflect the domain of social and personality development
covered in each chapter of the text.
Essay items
The essay items are much broader in scope than the multiple choice questions. I
have found these problems to be useful stimulants for class discussion as well as
alternative means to the multiple choice items for assessing what students have gleaned
from the text. Accompanying the essay items are page references for the text material
that is most directly pertinent to each question.
My experience suggests that students should be allotted approximately one
minute for each multiple choice item. The essays, of course, differ considerably in scope
and may require as little as five minutes to as much as twenty minutes per item.
On-line quiz items
Each chapter contains 10 multiple choice items and 3 essay items that I have
made available to students as on-line practice tests. Each item so selected is indicated in
the manual with the symbol WWW.
I have encouraged my own students to take these admittedly noncomprehensive
on-line quizzes to gain some idea of how well they are mastering chapter contents. To
further encourage this kind of self-assessment, I have, at times, told my own classes that
I would select a limited number of exam items from those appearing in the on-line
quizzes of the chapters over which they are being examined.
