Exam 5: The Self: Understanding Ourselves in a Social Context

According to the idea of "telling more than we can know" one reason that introspection is sometimes not an accurate way to learn about oneself is that

Recall that in a variation of his other work with great apes, Gallup (1997) compared the ability of chimps reared in social groups and chimps reared in isolation to recognize themselves in the mirror. Gallup's results suggest that

If you just declined an invitation to go out with friends so that you can study and then another friend offers you a beer, according to research in this chapter, what can you do to exert some self-control and stick with your study plan?

In evaluating programs in which children are offered rewards (e.g., money, pizza) for reading books, a social psychologist might remind us that

According to the text, the existence of Japanese benriya or "convenience agencies," which rent guests for weddings, funerals, and lectures, suggests that the

Women tend to have more ________ interdependence, and men tend to have more ________ interdependence.

Recall Schachter and Singer's study in which participants were given an injection, then exposed to either a very happy or very angry confederate, then asked about their mood. Which of the following is an independent variable in this study?

When there are no objective criteria and we feel uncertain, with whom are we most likely to compare ourselves?

In giving praise, parents should try to avoid ________ if they want to enhance their child's intrinsic motivation for the task.

According to the textbook, research on the development of the self-concept using the "red dye" test (placing a red dot on the forehead of the child and then showing the child his or her reflection in the mirror and seeing whether the child touches the red dot on the "baby in the mirror" or his or her own head) indicates that the self-concept in human infants develops at, on average, age

Mary is planning to get married in the near future. Imagine Mary has an independent view of herself. What would be some reasons she would give for getting married, and how does this reflect an independent self? Now imagine she has an interdependent view of herself. What would be some reasons she would give for getting married then, and how does that reflect her interdependent self?

Ingratiation is an impression management strategy whereby people use

Social comparison theory suggests that in order to learn about our own abilities and attitudes, we

People who are high in "relational interdependence"

Brittany knows she will need all the mental resources she has to focus on a speech she must give. Which of the following would be least helpful in terms of increasing her self-regulatory resources?

Why does misattribution of arousal happen?

According to research mentioned in this chapter, when children initially enjoyed a game, then were rewarded for it, how did they later behave after the reward was removed?

According to the authors, programs which provide children large monetary rewards for reading,

Reading programs that are intended to encourage children to read more by paying them to read books is an example of using

What is meant by the idea of the "looking glass self" (Cooley, 1902)?