Chapter 2: Communication and Personal Identity

According to the textbook, a key foundation for improving your self-concept is:

​accepting the self as in process and able to change

Stanton is giving a speech for the first time. He thinks he is doing well, but his audience can tell that he is very insecure and nervous. This example can be categorized into which part of the Johari window.​

Blind Area

According to the audio/video lecture, all of the following are guidelines for improving self-concept EXCEPT:​

Compare yourself to others so you can determine what to improve.

Information that we know about ourselves but choose not to reveal to most others is found in which area of the Johari Window?

Hidden

Edmund is very attentive and supportive to his son Mylan when he is sober, but when Edmund drinks he often ignores his son and sometimes verbally abuses him. Mylan never knows which way his father will act. If the father is Mylan's primary care giver, Mylan is likely to develop which attachment style?​

anxious-ambivalent

Girls and women are expected to be caring, whereas boys and men are expected to be:

both independent and self-assertive

​Individuals with ________ attachment styles tend to feel less hope, disclose less, and experience less satisfaction with relationships than people with other attachment styles.

fearful

The perspectives of the ________ other reflect the views generally held by others in a society.​

generalized

As noted in the audio/video lecture, positive Pygmalions...

give positive reinforcement and constructive criticism.

​Information that we know about ourselves but choose not to reveal to most others is found in which area of the Johari Window?

hidden

Psychologists define ________ as rules for living and identity.

identity scripts

As discussed in the audio/video lecture, the messages you send yourself about yourself is...

intrapersonal communication

​All of the following are panes of the Johari Window EXCEPT:

known

All of the following are risks to self-disclosing communication EXCEPT:

others may increase closeness with us

Members of his project group at work consistently comment on Ervin's excellent performance as team leader. Ervin begins to view himself as an effective leader and considers moving into a higher level management position. The process through which Ervin developed this sense of self at work is called:

reflected appraisal

The term ________, also called the looking-glass self, refers to our perception of another's view of us.

reflected appraisal

Nikki believes that she is lovable and that people are loving and can be trusted. Nikki has aNo ____ attachment style

secure

​Jenna believes that she doesn't have an aptitude for statistics, so doesn't put much effort into her statistics class. She performs poorly in the class, supporting her initial belief. This is an example of a

self-fulfilling prophecy

Telling ourselves that we're no good, we can't do something, or there's no point in trying to change is a hurtful form of self-talk called:

self-sabotage

Irene observes that on the most-recent test in her engineering class, only two students out of 60 earned higher scores than she did. She concludes that she is smarter than most of the others in class, at least in the subject of engineering. This is an example of a

social comparison