Exam 7: Self and Identity

When according to identity theory are college students likely to list "student" in response to the Twenty Statements Test?

A standup comic who endlessly tells jokes at the dinner table, but never really talks to his or her family members; an older sibling who routinely bosses his or her college roommates around; or a professor who grades exams at a rock concert are exhibiting:

Swann and Pelham's (2002) study showing that college freshmen were more likely to want to continue living with roommates who viewed them negatively involved the analysis of ________________________ data.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Studies on the transition to college designed as tests of identity theory, within the Iowa/Indiana school of symbolic interaction, focus on:

How do cognitive schemata affect information processing and recall? Discuss the significance of this from the perspective of a social psychologist interested in the structure and function of the self-concept.

Individuals with a negative self-concept will frequently find ways to interact with individuals who provide them with positive feedback in order to enhance their self-esteem.

Compare and contrast research on identities within Iowa/Indiana school SI with research on social identities in the group processes and structures face of social psychology. Is there any similarity in the issues addressed across perspectives? Consider, in particular, the extent to which people's responses to identity threat in group encounters reflects a need for self-verification.

Stryker (identify theory) defines identities (also called socially based identities) as:

Identity theorists argue that a mismatch between situational meanings and an identity standard will result in:

When an identity is so entrenched within someone's self-concept that he or she engages in behaviors related to it when it is not appropriate to so do, one can conclude that this individual is experiencing:

Is impression management always deceptive? Given an example of a situation in which your presentation of self was authentic. Were you conscious at the time of the fact that you were managing the impressions you conveyed to others? Explain.

Self-esteem refers to an individual's:

The snowman exercise, in Chapter 7, was used to illustrate:

Goffman (the dramaturgical approach) calls the use of nonverbal strategies (e.g., dress, posture, and demeanor) to increase the likelihood that one will be perceived in the desired manner:

College students are more likely to locate their real selves in impulse than in institutions.