Content & Process Theory
Paradigms & World Views
Identity Development
History of the Student Development Movement
Miscellaneous
100

According to the 6 personality types within Holland's Person-Environment Theory, realistic people tend to be interested in activities that involve working with practical tools, objects, and machines. While people with this personality type prefer spontaneous, creative, unregulated activities that lead to the creation of various art forms.

What is an Artistic Personality?

100

This critical/cultural paradigm that abbreviates to CRT emphasizes the centrality of race and racism and the challenges of white supremacy in law, education, politics, and other social systems.

What is Critical Race Theory?

100

This is commonly understood as one's personally held beliefs about the self in relation to social groups (e.g. race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation) and the ways one expresses that relationship.

What is Identity?

100

Students in the 1920s took more interest in this aspect of higher education.

What is vocational preparation rather than developing themselves in a holistic way?


100

The textbook describes this as "a collection of theories related to college students that explain how they grow and develop holistically... while enrolled in a postsecondary educational environment."

What is Student Development Theory?

200

These are the 4's of Transition within Schlossberg's Transition Theory.

What are Situation, Self, Support, and Strategies?

200

This paradigm believes that an objective reality exists, but research and theory reflect the limitations of human knowledge as conjecture. According to the textbook, Education research has largely followed this approach.

What is Post-positivism?

200

The most commonly taught theories related to identity and identity development are rooted in this. (P.S. think Freud and Erikson)

What is Psychology?

200

Building on Perry's theory of intellectual and ethical development of college students, the first researchers to investigate the intellectual development of women apart from men occurred within this 10 year time frame.

What is 1980s-1990s?

200

Most student development theories do not meet all the criteria in evaluating theory listed in the textbook because most are this instead of explanatory or predictive.

What is descriptive?

300

Alexander Astin's theory defines this as "the amount of physical and psychological energy that the student devotes to the academic experience... what the student does--rather than their feelings or thoughts."

What is Involvement?

300

The philosophical term ending in "ology" that means to explore the nature of reality.

What is Ontology?

300

The use of Critical Race Theory among Latinos is called this.

What is LaCrit?

300

In the 1960s and 1970s, the theories by Chickering, Marcia, Perry, and Kohlberg made important contributions to understanding college student development, but their theories failed to account for this.

What is the experiences of students of color and of women students of all backgrounds? 

300

This paradigm perspective has also been  expressed as the plural Black feminisms, or as the term womanism by Alice Walker the American novelist.

What is Black Feminism?

400

This psychologist was responsible for bringing insight into the process of development through cycles of differentiation and integration and balancing support and challenge.

Who is Nevitt Sanford?

400

These paradigms hold that truth is socially constructed, based on unacknowledged gender, culture, sexuality, class, language, and even personality preferences.

What are Cultural Paradigms?

400

Social psychologists have brought these two important concepts to studying identity development. The one representing a time in development after adolescence and the other representing an individual's hoped for or feared future self.

What are emerging adulthood and possible selves?

400

In the late 1960s and 1970s, this influential monograph questioned whether student development can be nurtured without the support and influence of those in the academic domain.

What is the Student Development in Tomorrow's Higher Education (The T.H.E. project)?
400

Within this year, the student population no longer consisted primarily of upper- and upper-middle class men. Women, veterans, and students of color enrolled in college in increasing numbers.

What is the 1960s?

500

The farthest ring of the Developmental Ecology Model by Erie Bronfenbrenner example that encompasses cultural expectations, social forces, and historical trends/events.

What is the Macrosystem?

500

This paradigm assumes the world has a strictly objective reality that's time/context-free.

What is Positivism?

500

Ruthellen Josselson, identity scholar said, "Living our identities is much like [this]. We don't have to ask ourselves each morning who we are. We simply are."

What is Breathing?

500

This author wrote in 1969 the book: Education and Identity, about the seven "vectors" to describe personal development of students during college.

Who is Arthur Chickering?

500

On the topic of student development and gender differences/stereotypes, despite common stereotypes of how men and women typically are categorized in "thinking" and "feeling" orientations, this percentage of men have gotten the "feeling" orientation on the Myers-Briggs Typology Inventory, while a comparable percent of women got a "thinking" orientation, according to the King 1994 readings.

What is 40%?

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