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

In a study by Muraven and his colleagues (1998),when participants were asked to first suppress a thought,they later performed worse ____ in the second task.

In a study conducted by Green and his colleagues (1976),when children initially enjoyed a game,then were rewarded for it,how did they later behave after the reward was removed?

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

In a study conducted by Heine and his colleagues (2008),they found that compared with participants who were placed in front of a mirror to complete a questionnaire, ____ who were not in front of a mirror tended to report higher actual/ideal self discrepancies.

The authors of your text describe the history behind a clever experiment conducted by Richard Nisbett and Tim Wilson (1977).Lacking inspiration when trying to design the experiment,the researchers decided that noise outside their office door was distracting them.In a flash of insight,they decided to use noise as a distraction in their experiment,and predicted that distracting noises would influence participants' judgments,even though they didn't know they were distracted by the noise.Results of the actual experiment showed that although participants' ratings of a film were not affected by distracting noises,participants erroneously thought they were.This anecdote provided by your authors demonstrates that

Pablo had always gotten much satisfaction out of caring for his brothers and sisters when they were sick.A few months ago,Pablo's father convinced him to take a job.at a hospital as a nurse's aide so that he could earn money doing what he enjoyed.Now that Pablo has been working at the hospital for awhile,he no longer enjoys caring for sick people as much as he did before he took the job.One reason for Pablo's attitude change may be that the job.has undermined his ____ for helping others.

Imagine that you are a participant in the experiment conducted by Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer (1962).You were injected with a vitamin compound called Suproxin and told that you might experience an increased heart rate,hand tremors,and sweaty palms.Further imagine that while completing a questionnaire,the person in the room with you begins to act angry,tears up the questionnaire,and storms from the room.You are likely to ____ because ____.