Watch and learn! Carefully selected media links and video chapter summaries by Laura Levine and Joyce Munsch will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams. 

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Chapter Video

• 11.1 - Mirror Self-Recognition
  Young children do not recognize that they are the child in the mirror.

• 11.3 - Quinceanera
  A quinceanera is a coming-of-age celebration that takes place on the 15th birthday when a young girl is presented to the community as a woman.

• 11.4 - Bali tooth-filing ceremony
  One coming-of-age celebration is the tooth filing ceremony that occurs in Bali.

• 11.5 - Body Image and Self Esteem
  Accepting your physical appearance helps adolescents feel good about themselves.

• 11.6 - Gender and Toys
  This video focuses on gender stereotyped toy choices.

• 11.7 - Gender Constancy
  This is an interesting video on children's interpretation of gender role stereotypes.

• 11.9 - Kohlberg's Moral Dilemma
  This video provides examples of individuals answering Kohlberg's questions about moral reasoning.

Video Links

• Self-Concept and Self-Esteem
  This video looks at self-concept and self-esteem, and how our experiences affect these aspects of the self.

• Autobiographical Memory
  We all have an autobiographical memory, but a few rare people have total recall known as "superior autobiographical memory", as shown in this 60 Minutes segment.

• Marcia's Identity Statuses
  Overview of identity development and a specific look at Marcia's identity statuses.

• Rites of Passage
  Dr. Arne Rubinstein, an anthropologist, discusses the reasons that societies have rites of passage and how this process occurs.

• Sex and Gender
  This video describes the difference between sex and gender and looks at gender roles in our society.

• The Journey of Changing Sexes
  This show includes a discussion of a woman who underwent sex reassignment surgery and discusses gender identity.

• Growing Up LGBT
  In a program for LGBT teens, the teens talk about the challenges they have faced.

• Heinz and the Drug
  Children in middle childhood give their answers to the moral dilemma “Heinz and the Drug" and their reasons for their answers.

• Carol Gilligan
  Carol Gilligan discusses her theory of moral development.

• Moral Thought and Moral Action
  Teens discuss some situations where they need to put their moral values into action.

Audio Links

• Moral Development
  Psychologist Richard Weissbourd discusses his research that looks at how well-meaning parents can unintentionally undermine a child'smoral and emotional development.

• Generation Me
  Professor Twnege discusses her research on the negative consquences of the self esteem movement.

• Gender Identity Disorder in Children
  Today gender identity disorder is being recognized in young children.

• Betwixt and Between
  The professor who has been teaching a course on multi-racial identity since 1989 talks about the topic.