Exam 5: The Self Understanding Ourselves in a Social Context

Based on cross-cultural research,your textbook authors reach the conclusion that Westerners' sense of self derives from ________,while East Asians' sense of self derives from ________.

_______ theory posits that when our attitudes or feelings are ambiguous,we infer our internal states by observing our own behaviours and the situation in which they occur.

In the United States,women are more likely to have an interdependent view of themselves and men to have an independent view of themselves.These gender differences suggest

Upward social comparison is to _______ as downward social comparison is to _______.

According to research on social comparison,elderly people feel more life satisfaction when

According to self-awareness theory,how might therapists help clients learn more about themselves? Therapists might

If you are a person who gives a great deal of priority to close relationships as part of your sense of self,then you probably score high on measures of

Describe how a self-perception theorist would explain how you come to decide whether you really like your new roommate.

Briefly describe the tenets of self-awareness theory and explain some cognitive and behavioural consequences of self-awareness.

Joanne Wood,Shelley Taylor,and Rosemary Lichtman (1985)found that in order to feel more optimistic about their own futures,cancer patients engage in

Daryl Bem (1972)argues that people are most likely to engage in self-perception when their feelings are _______ and they cannot make a(n)_______ attribution for their behaviour.

Intrinsic motivation is to _______ as extrinsic motivation is to _______.

Heine,Takata,and Lehman (2000)found that failure feedback

While completing a personality test,Craig comes to an item that asks him if he sees himself as shy and introverted.Craig reflects on some of his recent behaviour.He reasons that since he generally does not talk much in class discussions and tends to avoid large parties,he must be shy and introverted.Which of the following strategies for self-knowledge is Craig using?

In a study described in the text,Baldwin and his colleagues found that graduate students rated their own work more negatively if they were first exposed to a picture of the scowling face of the program director than if they were first exposed to a picture of a smiling colleague.According to the researchers,this occurred because

The authors of your text discussed a study where American and Japanese students were asked questions about their actual and their ideal selves.Participants were either in front of a mirror or not.What were the results of the study?

The authors of your text described a study in which university students kept track of their moods in daily diaries.The results of this study suggest that

Barbara replies to her therapist,"How do I see myself? Well,I'm socially anxious,insecure,relatively intelligent,and terribly shy." Barbara's response reflects her

Many social psychologists assert that much of our sense of self arises from our interactions with our observations of others-in effect,the self is social.How does Leon Festinger's social comparison theory fit this conceptualization of self?

You are sitting at the mall,gossiping with a friend about a mutual acquaintance.You suddenly catch sight of yourself on a security camera.According to self-awareness theory,what is likely to happen in this case?