Exam 2: Understanding Your Self

You can successfully engage in ingratiation as an impression management strategy as long as you don't engage in phony flattery.

Our tendency to only subject ourselves to messages that are consistent with what we already believe is called

Terrell believes he is going to fail his final exam. What question can help him avoid this self-fulfilling prophecy?

The basic mental process of perception (selection, organization, and interpretation) is the same for all cultures.

Your textbook discusses five factors that influence your interpretation of the stimuli you select and organize-past experiences, knowledge, expectations, attitudes, and relational involvement. Choose and explain three of these factors. Demonstrate your understanding by providing examples of how these factors affect human communication behavior.

What is your score on the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension assessment at the end of Chapter 1? Is your overall PRCA score high, average, or low? What does your score tell you about how your level of apprehension? If your score is high or average, what strategies are most likely to help you reduce your level of communication apprehension? If you score is low, how can you help others reduce their level of communication apprehension?

Maria thinks that she is going to do poorly on her exam because she's been told that most students do poorly on this instructor's tests. She tells herself that she will probably get a low grade. When the exam is graded, Maria, in fact, does poorly on it. What barrier to self-esteem does Maria's thinking exhibit?

Communication apprehension can occur in a variety of settings such as at work, at school, and in interpersonal conversations.

Self-monitoring describes your ability to observe and control how you express yourself verbally and nonverbally when interacting with others.

What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? Provide two examples to demonstrate your understanding of this concept. Provide two questions you should ask yourself if you want to avoid the self-fulfilling prophecy trap.

When Jing-Mei was younger, she was obsessed with getting approval from others. When taking an interpersonal communication class, she realized that she had the ability to stand up for herself in appropriate ways in order to satisfy her needs and pursue her goals. She is now practicing

If Emma daydreams while her instructor is lecturing, what stage has she skipped in the three-step perceptual process?

______________ represents your judgments about yourself.

Impression management represents the strategies you use to shape others' impressions of you in order to gain influence, power, sympathy, or approval.

The absence of real, face-to-face interactions makes it easier to distort aspects of your self.

In terms of the communication element of self, the perception-checking guidelines involve assessing how your personal biases, level of self-awareness, and cultural background affect your perceptions.

You should always avoid using the impression management strategy of intimidation.

Communication scholar James McCroskey makes all of the following claims about the nature of communication apprehension except:

In his book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman asserts that people with greater certainty about their feelings are better pilots of their lives.

If you were writing a book about strategies for improving self-esteem, what would it be titled? What would the three chapters be called? Also, write a brief description of each chapter.