Exam 6: The Self: Mind, Gender, and Body

A(n)________ is a particular model,or exemplar,or appearance.

The symbolic self -completion theory suggests that people who have an incomplete self-definition will tend to complete this identity by buying products that are associated or symbolic of their self-definition.

A person's actual self is a person's conception of how he/she would like to be.

Bart was a mortuary worker who noticed that there seemed to be a social class difference in what people placed on the graves of departed family members.What Bart observed was a class difference in how people manifest the relationship between external objects and the ________ self.

Define self-concept.

College student Jeff Barnes sees himself as a rich banker who drives a top of the line BMW.This fantasy is an expression of the ________.

If Volkswagen owners see themselves as being more economical and conservative than do owners of the Buick Regal,________ is probably at work.

The U.S.government estimates that approximately ________ of American adults are overweight or obese.

The looking-glass self is molded by elements of pop culture,such as comic book heroes.

________ refers to a consumer's subjective evaluation of his or her physical self.

Eastern and Western cultures see the self divided into an inner,private,and an outer public self.

A professor came to class dressed in a formal shirt and tie.He stated that he would like to explain the concept of self.He took off his tie and shirt.Underneath he had a on a t-shirt with a picture of a handsome tennis player on the front.Then the professor turned around to show a picture of a cartoon clown on the back."All of these express who I am," he said.What point was the professor trying to make? What did his choice of varying dress forms and associated iconic symbols most likely represent?

If a person's identity is derived in large measure from his or her social group.This is called ________.

Jim Smith thinks he should be more outgoing.He is looking at his ________.

________ refers to the positivity of a person's self-concept.

A woman who was raised on Kate Moss images of women,played with Barbie dolls while growing up,and watched a significant amount of TV was talking with a friend outside a theater playing the 1953 Marilyn Monroe classic Gentleman Prefer Blondes.The woman said,"I didn't know Marilyn Monroe was so big and fat." Her female friend disagreed and said,"Marilyn Monroe is a classic icon of beauty." Discuss this interchange in terms of ideals of beauty.

Social comparison is a basic human tendency.

Describe the self-concept.Next,discuss and describe the dimensions that can be used to describe the attributes of the self-concept.

According to the sociological tradition of ________,relationships with other people play a large part in forming the self.

Western cultures tend to subscribe to an independent understanding of the self,which emphasizes the inherent separateness of each individual.