Exam 3: The Self

Terra is a really good faculty member. She works hard and is happy to receive good evaluations and raises from her department chair. She finds out, though, that the other faculty members in her department receive better evaluations and higher raises than she does. According to social comparison theory, when Terra compares her evaluations and raises to her peers in her department, she is making a(n) ____.

Jeff is 64 and facing mandatory retirement. As he considers his future, he thinks about how he has mentored new co-workers the way he was once mentored and how co-workers often come to him for advice and to share their triumphs. He thinks about how his work friendships have often become mutually supportive personal friendships and he wonders how those relationships will change when he retires. Jeff has a(n) ____ self-construal.

The term "looking-glass self" was coined to refer to the idea that ____.

As discussed in the text, the increase in social mobility in aristocratic times may help explain how the idea of ____ originated.

In the television series Dexter, blood spatter evidence expert and serial killer Dexter has public roles of forensic technician, brother, husband and father. These roles correspond to Dexter's ____.

Compared to people with high self-esteem, people with low self-esteem have ________________ (similar/different) life goals.

Dexter, the television serial killer who is also a blood spatter evidence expert, devotes a great deal of effort to controlling himself and to controlling his victims. In terms of the three components of the self, this reflects Dexter's ____.

Sarah is taking an African American history class, and she is the only white person in her class (everyone else is African American). Research suggests that, because she is the only white person, she will be ____.

In Nisbett and Wilson's (1977) studies on consumers' awareness of purchasing decisions, ____.

People with low self-esteem are MORE likely to focus on ____ than ____.

Research suggests that most "normal" people today ____.

Even though she has taken Spanish courses for years and is almost fluent, Ann just enrolled in Spanish I. Why? She loves the feeling of being the smartest person in the room, and loves to get scores of 100%. Ann is apparently driven by a rather strong ____.

The overjustification effect occurs when ____.

Pamela is in a study where she has to rate how desirable each person in her class is to her as a friendship partner. Pamela is in a study that probably tests ________________ theory.

Jonah, a 19-year-old college sophomore has mild autism spectrum disorder and is acutely aware of the ways in which he is different from others socially, emotionally and intellectually. Jonah has a(n) ____ self-construal.

Research on the self-reference effect would suggest that people trying to memorize words on a list would be more likely to remember a word like "happy" if they had considered whether or not the word described them personally, as opposed to considered how long the word was.

Suppose that you want your child to be intrinsically motivated to play the violin well. Research suggests that your best bet is to reward your child (e.g., with money or candy) each time that he or she practices the violin.

Research suggests that ____ may be more pronounced in individualistic cultures than in collectivistic cultures.

The phenomenal self, or the working self-concept, refers to ____.

Research suggests that pursuing self-esteem as an end in itself tends to ____.