Exam 6: The Self in the Social World

Depressed people are more likely than nondepressed people to attribute their failures to internal factors.

Today ______ mothers (overall) are in the labor force, ______ mothers of preschool children.

First impressions _______.

Sports fans tend to attribute their team's victories to ______ factors and their losses to ______ factors.

People wear their best suits to interviews and lawyers dress their clients to look like the all-American girl or boy in court in an effort to take advantage of the ______.

The part of a person's self that is visible to that person and to that person alone and represents the person's inner identity is called the ______.

We tend to divide the social world into "us" and "them."

According to the text, the ______ refers to the various masks we wear or roles we play.

The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional factors and our own behavior to situational factors is called ______.

Identity formation is less complicated for adolescents from ethnic minority groups.

The actor-observer effect influences our perceptions of ______.

The set of beliefs, feelings, and generalizations we have about ourselves is a(n) ______ schema.

Compare and contrast the self-concept, the ideal self, and self-esteem, and explain how each contributes to our overall self-perception.

Jim believes that all people who do not follow his religion are depraved sinners who will never go to heaven. His belief about religion is an example of a(n) ______.

Marcia identified ______ identity statuses.

According to your text, self-esteem ______.

The actor-observer effect involves _____.

The identity status that describes individuals who have resolved an identity crisis and committed to a relatively stable set of beliefs or course of action is ______.

Prejudice is a ______ schema.

To Rogers, the sense of self is ______.