Exam 2: Communication and Personal Identity

Edmund is very attentive and supportive to his son Mylan when he is sober, but when Edmund drinks he often ignores his son and sometimes verbally abuses him. Mylan never knows which way his father will act. If the father is Mylan's primary care giver, Mylan is likely to develop which attachment style?

____ information is known both to us and to others. Your name, height, major, and tastes in music probably are open information that you share easily with others.

The perspectives of the generalized other are revealed to us in three ways.

Fearfully attached individuals tend to feel less hope, disclose less, and experience less satisfaction with relationships than people with other attachment styles.

The later bonds we have with others shapes how comfortable we feel getting close to others and how secure we feel in others' acceptance and commitment to us.

The self has multiple dimensions.

Stanton is giving a speech for the first time. He thinks he is doing well, but his audience can tell that he is very insecure and nervous. This example can be categorized into which part of the Johari window.

The ____ area is made up of information about ourselves that neither we nor others know.

Members of his project group at work consistently comment on Ervin's excellent performance as team leader. Ervin begins to view himself as an effective leader and considers moving into a higher level management position. The process through which Ervin developed this sense of self at work is called:

Individualism is a key value in Western cultures.

The term ____, also called the looking-glass self, is based on Charles Cooley's poem.

The perspectives of the ____ other reflect the views generally held by others in a society.

The attachment style an infant develops can change over the course of life.

Critical whiteness scholars point out that nonwhites are often identifies by their race, but whites seldom are.

Recall the story about Ramu (the wolf boy) that was discussed in Chapter 1. Was Ramu human or not? Explain your answer in terms of George Herbert Mead's discussion of how humans develop and what it means to be a human self.

A study showed that children 31/2 to 7 years old have strong preferences for playing with other children of the different sex.

The ____ area consists of your untapped resources, your untried talents, and your reactions to experiences you've never had. You don't know how you will manage a crisis until you've been in one, and you can't tell what kind of parent you would be unless you've had a child.

Discuss the influence of Particular Others and the Generalized Other in creating individuals' senses of identity. Incorporate concrete examples into your response.

In a study of both different and same sex couples, researchers found that couples in which both partners had __ attachment styles had the most mutually constructive communication.

Identify the following: -Ego boundaries