Exam 4: The Self: Answering the Question: Who Am I

Sofia admires and respects her psychology professor.She is considering becoming a psychologist herself.Should her professor become a role model for her,Sofia may become a psychologist herself if she ________.

The self-evaluation maintenance model suggests that we will ________ others who perform more poorly than we do in an important area.

In Ross and Wilson's interesting experiments,participants who perceived a past self as ________ were likely to be more critical of ________ than when they perceived their past self as ________.

Self-esteem is likely to be LOWEST in ________.

________ occurs when an individual thinks that she or he may be judged in light of a negative stereotype about his or her social identity.

Whenever Mike enters his family's den where the sports trophies that he has won are on the mantle,his self-esteem is temporarily boosted.This is best described as caused by the fact that ________.

People tend to describe themselves in different ways under different circumstances.According to Mendoza-Denton's (2001)research,people who are given prompts that implied a particular social setting tend to describe themselves using ________ terms.

Kayla has decided to get a body piercing.Her expectation is that she might well receive ________ by (from)her mom's mainstream friends.This will likely cause her to ________ identify with ________.

Positive self-talk such as "I am a lovable person" tends to ___.

When people described themselves as they were five years ago,or as they are today,they saw their past self as more _______,and their present self as more ________.