Communication and Perception

April's family values intelligence and has pushed her to strive for academic excellence. While April focused on creating a new social network and getting involved in campus organizations, her grades dropped below what they had been in high school. At the end of her first semester, April is ashamed to tell her parents that she earned a 2.5 GPA. Which of the following discrepancies between selves best describes April's experience?

actual and other's ideas

Actual, ideal, and fictional selves make up our self-concept

false

Context has no influence on people's self-concept

false

Self-concept is an innate quality that each of us is born with

false

Socialization has only negative effects

false

The ideal self consists of attributes you ar someone else believes you should possess

false

The two types of self presentation are pro-social and anti-social

false

Which form of motivation is more likely to lead people to successfully achieve their goals and be happy despite sacrifices made and failures experience along the way

intrinsic

Nina is walking next to the movie theatre on the way home from school. She notices the poster for a brand-new movie coming out called "Beach Babes Save the Day." Looking at the poster, Nina feels self-conscious about her weight and wishes she looked more like the skinny women on the poster. This example shows the power of ___________________ to influence our perception

media

The two main types of self-presentation are ________________ and self serving

pro-social

Our _____________ is found through our interactions with others their reactions to us

self-concept

Sherry considers herself a funny and easygoing person. What Sherry is describing are clues to her:

self-concept

While self-concept is a broad description of the self, _______________ is more specifically an evaluation of the slef

self-esteem

Along what dimensions do we engage in social comparison

similarity and difference and superiority and inferiority

______________is the result of a reflective process of building our self-concept based on what other people have actually said

the looking class self

Factors like age and personality may influence whether or not we want to fit in or stand out

true

Media plays a role in our self-perception.

true

Men are more likely to describe themselves in terms of their group memberships and women are more likely to include references to relationships in their self-descriptions

true

We tend to emphasize our desirable qualities relative to other people

true

______________________ describes how we develop our self-concept through comparisons to other people

Social comparison theory

__________________ refers to our tendency to emphasize our desirable qualities

Self-enhancement bias