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

In a recent study by Masicampo & Baumeister (2008),participants who drank ____ tended to exert better self-control than those who drank ____.

Your best friend has just told you that he's getting married.Appraisal theories of emotion would predict that you would most likely ask yourself, ____ before deciding how you feel about the impending nuptials.

Which of the following people is using ingratiation as a self-presentational tactic?

All of the following except ____ are likely to be used as escapes from aversive self-awareness.

All of the following except ____ are ways of giving praise that can enhance a child's intrinsic motivation.

According to the authors of your text,introspection is not an especially useful source of information about the self because people

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 The Late Show with David Letterman?

Which of the following ways of a parents' giving praise is most likely to enhance a child's intrinsic motivation?

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.However,in using these,she must also be careful to ____ so that using the rewards does not backfire.

According to the authors of your text,one major problem with preparing excuses in advance of possible failure is that

Misattribution of arousal can best be defined as the process by which people make

According to the authors of your text,extrinsic rewards are most likely to diminish intrinsic motivation when

Which of the following is an example of a causal theory for behavior/feelings?

The authors of your text explain four functions of the self.Which of the following is not one of these four functions?

When Daphne goes on an interview,she does her best to make a good impression and put her best foot forward.Which function of the self is exemplified in this situation?

Recall that Dutton and Aron (1974)had an attractive female confederate approach men either on a high,narrow,swaying suspension bridge,or else on the other side of the bridge where they were sitting.In thinking about processes of misattribution of arousal,which group of men was more likely to call the confederate later and ask her for a date?

According to research by Tim Wilson and his colleagues (1989,1992,1995),analyzing the reasons for why we feel what we do is not always the best strategy for making sense of our feelings.This is because

Theories holding that emotions result from people's interpretation and explanation of events-in the absence of any physiological arousal-are known as

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

Lisa is most likely to conclude that she likes classical music when