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

Kevin just got a low grade on his term paper. If Kevin has a __________ mindset, he would be most likely to give up and reduce his efforts in the class, feeling as though he is just "a bad writer."

In the study by Greene, Sternberg, and Lepper (1976), they gave students a math game to play for fun. They measured how much time the children played with the math game prior to any incentive. Then they implemented a reward system to see if they could increase the willingness to play with the game. During the reward program, time spent playing the game increased, and then the reward program was stopped. When compared to control participants, students who were part of the reward program __________ interest in playing the games once the reward program was stopped.

Complete the following analogy: "practice makes perfect" is to __________ as "born leader" is to __________.

According to the tenets of self-perception theory, which of the following audience members would report that he or she really loved the taping of Late Show with David Letterman?

Which of the following best explains why the groups of people we tend to hang out with have the same views that we have?

Mrs. Hill has decided to provide her first-grade students with gold stars to reward them for reading. She has decided to use performance-contingent rewards. To do this, she will give gold stars __________.

When Jessie sits down for the first day of class, the person next to him, Blake, is wearing a "Free Tibet" shirt. After a few minutes of talking, Jessie realizes that he likes Blake. Which of the following is most likely to happen based on the idea of social tuning?

Behavioral self-handicapping involves __________.

__________ refers to the process of looking inward and examining our thoughts, feelings, and motives.