Exam 3: The Self

Astrid spends a lot of time thinking about her own motivations and thoughts - about why she feels and believes and behaves the way she does. Astrid is best described as spending a lot of time in ____.

How does the self-concept relate to others' perceptions? Research suggests that the self-concept ____.

After her husband is arrested for alcohol-fueled domestic violence, Rachel finds herself wondering how her co-workers will perceive her Monday morning. She wonders if they will judge her as being a bad wife or a weak woman and she prepares herself for the shame she believes is inevitable. Rachel's thought processes correspond to Cooley's ____.

Recent Supreme Court decisions related to marriage equality have done little to decrease the debate about the "true" meaning of marriage. A culture that emphasizes public behavior and commitments is likely to ____.

When people engage in self-handicapping, their behavior is MOSTLY driven by the ____.

In the 1980s, there was an anti-drug television commercial that showed a businessman in a seedy public restroom getting prepared to snort cocaine. The man drops the cocaine on the floor and needs to bend down to try to retrieve it. He then catches a glimpse of himself in the restroom mirror, and appears-having seen himself in this act-to feel suddenly shocked by himself, and ashamed of what he is doing. Seeing himself in the mirror seems to heighten the man's ____.

Drug rehabilitation programs often require that their patients discontinue contact with old "using" friends, and maintain friendships with new "clean" friends only. One reason that this makes sense from a social psychological standpoint is that by changing their social networks in this way, ____.

Is self-esteem related to academic grades?

Who is MOST likely to have unprotected sex?

Research on self-esteem indicates that ____.

The sociometer theory of self-esteem suggests that personal self-esteem ____.

With regard to roles, human beings tend to ____.

Research indicates that, at least in the U.S., the tendency toward self-presentation is more common ____ while the tendency toward modesty is stronger ____.

Self-knowledge includes ____.

The television series Dexter features a blood spatter evidence expert who is also a serial killer of individuals who kill others but escape justice. The show often begins and ends with voice-overs of Dexter reflecting on who he is and what his characteristics are. In terms of the three components of the self, Dexter is reflecting on ____.

According to the text, Mead's notion of the generalized other elaborated upon ____.

Ted tends to think of himself as a workaholic and perfectionist. When he thinks back on college years, he remembers studying hard for exams and getting good grades (and tends to forget about the time he nearly failed a class, and disregard the many nights he spent partying). The way that Ted thinks about his college years illustrates the fact that people ____.

____ tends to make people more aware of positive, culturally desirable standards and tends to make them try harder to behave in positive, culturally desirable ways.

Compared to people with high self-esteem, people with low self-esteem ____.

According to social psychological research, which of the following would be the MOST promising technique to use to try to change the self-concept, beliefs, and values of an individual who engaged in terrorist activities?