Exam 6: The Self in the Social World

Which of the following is MOST likely to be interpreted as a provocation or a sign of anger or hostility?

A belief concerning why people behave in a certain way is called ______.

Summarize the research on the relationship between names and personality.

Compared to European American girls, African American girls are ______ with their physical appearance and ______ likely to turn inward and blame themselves for not attaining the American physical ideal.

People from eastern countries such as Japan and China are more likely to blame themselves for failures than are people from Western countries such as the United States.

Eliminating perfectionistic demands falls under which method of raising self-esteem?

______ involves negative attitudes toward older people.

The "what have you done for me lately" attitude used by many managers when rating their employees is an example of the ______.

We tend to remember more easily information that is consistent with our prejudices.

In high school, staring contests among adolescent males are seen as ______.

A person's name can determine someone's personality, popularity, and future success.

The identity status that describes individuals who have adopted a commitment to a set of beliefs or course of action without undergoing an identity crisis is ______.

Identify the various types of attributions and discuss the attribution process in terms of the fundamental attribution error, the actor-observer effect, and the self-serving bias.

According to the text, roles and masks are ______ responses to the social world.

Waterman & Nevid's research found that among college students, the lowest incidence of identity diffusion was in ______.

Mary is confused. She is intensely examining various alternatives on issues that are important to her and her future. Should she get married or not, go to graduate school or get a full-time job, or become active in the local environmental group? She is best described as having an identity status of ______.

In an experiment, men and women who gazed into each other's eyes for two minutes later said they had passionate feelings for each other.

The process by which we form understandings of others in our social environment, based on how others act and information we receive is called ______.

In self-serving bias, people tend to attribute their personal successes to ______ factors and attribute their personal failures to ______ factors.

Waterman & Nevid's research of college students found that in developing their sexual attitudes, ______.