Deck 4: Self and Self-Esteem

Question 1

For an assignment, Professor Hanson asks students to fill out a form to rate their personality, to fill out the form rating themselves as if they were a good friend, and to ask that same good friend to also fill out the form about them.Students find that their responses as their friends are more similar to their own ratings than to their friends' real responses.Which of the following helps explain this discrepancy:

A)People rarely provide full, honest feedback on their reactions to others
B)People often provide inconsistent and contradictory feedback
C)People frequently provide ambiguous and difficult to interpret feedback
D)All of the above

Answer 1

All of the above

Question 2

Shelby is an American living in New Zealand.On the Fourth of July, she attends a party with other Americans.She wears an American flag shirt, sings the national anthem, and proclaims her love for popular American sports like baseball and football.Which of the following factors most likely impacted Shelby enacting her American identity?

A)Hierarchy of identities
B)Social Networks
C)Need for identity support
D)Situational opportunities

Answer 2

Situational opportunities

Question 3

Clementine enters a restaurant and waits for the hostess to seat her.She is prepared to order a beverage when the waiter first comes to the table.When he enters, she hands him the menu and orders her meal.When she finishes eating, she asks for the check and pays, leaving a standard tip.Clementine enacts behaviors associated with her ____________ as a customer.

A)Role identity
B)Social identity
C)Digital self
D)Situated self

Answer 3

Role identity

Question 4

Omar is shopping for a new car.He really wants to get a big SUV so that it would be easier to bring his dogs out for hikes, but he knows his hiking club friends would disapprove; they all drive hybrids or electric cars.Omar is _____________.

A)Participating in role taking
B)Acting reflexively
C)Considering the looking glass self
D)Considering the generalized other

Question 5

Uzo volunteers with search and rescue in her community.Although initially attracted by the desire to be a hero, she now suppresses her individual goals and emphasizes the importance of the search and rescue team.She has learned survival skills and rescue techniques, but is not yet very skilled and therefore does not lead training session.Uzo is at the __________ stage of membership within the search and rescue group.

A)Outcast
B)New
C)Peripheral
D)Core

Question 6

The social identities we can adopt are restricted to how easily we can be identified as a member of the group.

Question 7

In order to identify as a member of a social group (social identity), you must interact with members of that group.

Question 8

The looking glass self is a reflection of objective reality.

Question 9

As compared to face-to-face interaction, people engaging in computer-mediated communication (CMC) display all of the following related to their self-concept, EXCEPT:

A)They are less likely to use CMC messages as a looking glass self
B)They are more likely receive high scores on measures of self-clarity
C)They are more likely to provide superficial self-disclosure
D)They are more likely to hold multiplied, diverse selves

Question 10

Simon attends a roller derby game to cheer for the home team.Along with other fans in the crowd, he wears greens, stomps his feet loudly when the home team scores, and sings the team's rallying song.Simon enacts behaviors associated with his ____________ as a fan of the home team.

A)Role identity
B)Social identity
C)Digital self
D)Situated self

Question 11

When highly self-aware, people are more likely to do all of the following, EXCEPT:

A)Accurately report their hospitalizations
B)Behave in automatic and habitual ways
C)Exert self-control aligned with social norms
D)Honestly report their mood

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT a source of self-esteem?

A)Performance feedback
B)Family experience
C)Social comparison
D)Actually, all of the above are sources of self-esteem

Question 13

Noelle dreamed of being a professional singer.She even tried out for American Idol, but the judges said she'd never make it.She knows they're wrong, though, because her family says that she's the best they've ever heard.This is an example of _____________.

A)Manipulating appraisals
B)Selective social comparison
C)Selective information processing
D)Denial

Question 14

In order to engage in successful action, human beings must do which of the following:

A)Develop an ability to differentiate themselves from other persons
B)Learn to see themselves and their own actions as if through others' eyes
C)Learn to use a symbol system or language for inner thought
D)All of the above

Question 15

Which of the following helps people construct a unified self of self and influences consistency in their behaviors across time and different situations?

A)Salience hierarchy
B)Situated self
C)Self-awareness
D)Social comparison

Question 16

We are born with the ability to differentiate between ourselves and the environment.

Question 17

Mo and Bec walk around the classroom pretending to be a nurse and a doctor.Mo asks peers if they have a cough or any bruises, pretends to write notes, and the consults with Bec.Bec diagnoses the classmates and hands them sheets of paper for imaginary prescriptions.Mo and Bec are engaging in the ___________ stage as they develop a sense of self.

A)Looking glass self
B)Play
C)Game
D)Generalized other

Question 18

The process of imaginatively occupying the position of another person and viewing the self and the situation from their perspective is known as _____________.

A)Role taking
B)Reflexivity
C)The looking glass self
D)The generalized other

Question 19

When a component of an individual's actual self is opposite a component of the ideal self or the ought self, that person experiences __________.

A)The looking glass self
B)Self-awareness
C)Self-discrepancy
D)Social comparison

Question 20

Role identities provide the link between the self and society.

Question 21

What are your two most salient role or social identities? Explain two things that affect when you enact each identity.Give detailed examples to illustrate how these factors affect when you exact the identities.

Question 22

Reflected appraisals help shape the content of a person's self-schema whereas the looking glass self is the process by which appraisals become a part of the self.

Question 23

Whereas people in collectivist cultures exhibit more group-linked identities (sibling, Lutheran), people in individualist cultures exhibit more individual identities (optimist, Virgo).

Question 24

Jacinta and Carmen are carpenters.Due to societal role expectations for carpenters, their role identities are carpenter will be almost identical.

Question 25

Using an example from the text or from your own life, explain what reflected appraisals are, and three ways that they can be distorted.

Question 26

Lawrence's father is black and his mother is Japanese.To others, he doesn't look black or Asian.For Lawrence, his cultural exposure and ability to speak Japanese will matter more for his racial identity than his physical features.

Question 27

Using illustrative examples from the text or from your life, discuss the three self-verification strategies often employed by people to help maintain the perception of consistency across time and situations.Then, discuss how these strategies are limited.

Question 28

The self is both an active source of reflexive behavior and the passive object toward whom reflexive behavior is directed.

Question 29

Adopting a social identity involves conforming to behavior expectations alone.

Question 30

Parents are important influences on children's self-appraisals regarding academics and sports, but not for perceived attractiveness.

Question 31

What are the four ways in which people protect their self-esteems? Provide an illustrative example of each.

Question 32

Teens who score higher on measures of internet addiction also score higher on measures of self-clarity.

Question 33

Anne is going for her driver's test.On her way there, a classmate made a mean-spirited comment about Anne being both female and Asian, insinuating that she couldn't possibly be a good driver.Anne then did poorly on the written part of the exam.While she still passed, she didn't do as well as she had wanted.Anne was likely influenced by a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Question 34

The digital self is outwardly oriented, meaning that people tend to report about external news and events.

Question 35

Through his work observing children, Mead proposed that there were two sequential stages of the social experience for children.Explain what the two stages are and give an example for each.