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
