Exam 5: The Self: Understanding Ourselves in a Social Context

Why, when we introspect about the reasons underlying our attitudes or feelings, do we believe the explanations we arrive at seem reasonable?

Intrinsic motivation is to ________ as extrinsic motivation is to ________.

Earl wants to understand his self-concept better, so he sits quietly by himself and thinks about who he is and what his values and attitudes are.What is Earl engaging in?

Dr.Patel just completed writing a tough exam and ate a healthy lunch instead of grabbing something from the vending machine.Based on research presented in the text, the fact that she avoided the depletion effect means she probably did what?

Assume that when exposed to a mirror, chimpanzees will use the mirror to aid in grooming (e.g., to pick food from their teeth) and to entertain themselves by making faces.The chimps' behavior in front of the mirror would suggest that

Women are most often awarded custody of their children because of the belief that they are the best custodians of children, even though we know that women commit infanticide and abuse.Our belief represents

Researchers asked participants to keep journals of their daily moods and of other variables, such as the weather and how much sleep they got the night before.When asked, many participants reported the amount of sleep the night before was correlated with their moods.When information recorded in the journals was subjected to more systematic statistical analysis, it was found that amount of sleep was not related to participants' self-reported moods.This is most likely because participants

Josie has just been diagnosed with cancer.According to the information presented in your text, first state what upward social comparisons and downward social comparisons are, then explain what Josie would gain by making an upward and a downward social comparison.

Researchers randomly assigned participants to pray or not before doing a task that required a lot of energy.The group that prayed

The two factors necessary to experience an emotion according to Schachter's two-factor theory of emotion are