PYC3701 CHAPTER 3 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND THEIR CORRECT
ANSWERS
research (Simon, 2004) has noted that linguistic cues
can activate certain types of self-concepts. When
other people describe us, nouns tend to activate
________ identities while adjectives and verbs tend to
activate ________ identities.
social; personal
As one of a number of ________, people are quite
willing to avoid responsibility for their failures but all
too willing to accept credit for their successes.
self serving bias
When people describe themselves as they were five
years ago and as they are today, they see their past
self as more ________ and their present self as more
________.
When Jeremy was recently asked to describe himself
to his classmates, he spoke about being a member of
the football team and how this helped to make his
experiences different from those of other students in
the class. Jeremy was primarily making ________
comparisons.
interagroup
When we compare ourselves to others who are more
capable, we are engaged in a(n)
, upward social comparison
Judy has been reflecting recently on all of the positive
personal and professional life changes she has
experienced over the past decade. The most likely
reason she is engaging in this reflection is because
she
finds it gratifying to see improvement over time
Our self-concept varies periodically because
we do not experience all aspects of our self-concept
simultaneously
In the United States, gender differences in self-esteem
are most pronounced among ________ people.
white lower class
Katherine and Amy are members of the same sorority
at college and are members of the school's swim
team. They have been trying to master a difficult dive
from the high board at the college's swimming pool.
Amy is showing faster improvement in the dive than
Katherine is. If they compare their performance as
individuals, the self-evaluation maintenance model
suggests that
Katherine should dislike Amy more
Kim is an American who spent much of her childhood
in Japan. She is fluent in both English and Japanese.
We might reasonably expect her response to the
question "Who am I?" to differ depending on the
language used to ask
a particular language might activate different self-concepts
for bilingual people
Socially introverted individuals who use online social
media such as Facebook tend to
QUESTIONS AND THEIR CORRECT
ANSWERS
research (Simon, 2004) has noted that linguistic cues
can activate certain types of self-concepts. When
other people describe us, nouns tend to activate
________ identities while adjectives and verbs tend to
activate ________ identities.
social; personal
As one of a number of ________, people are quite
willing to avoid responsibility for their failures but all
too willing to accept credit for their successes.
self serving bias
When people describe themselves as they were five
years ago and as they are today, they see their past
self as more ________ and their present self as more
________.
When Jeremy was recently asked to describe himself
to his classmates, he spoke about being a member of
the football team and how this helped to make his
experiences different from those of other students in
the class. Jeremy was primarily making ________
comparisons.
interagroup
When we compare ourselves to others who are more
capable, we are engaged in a(n)
, upward social comparison
Judy has been reflecting recently on all of the positive
personal and professional life changes she has
experienced over the past decade. The most likely
reason she is engaging in this reflection is because
she
finds it gratifying to see improvement over time
Our self-concept varies periodically because
we do not experience all aspects of our self-concept
simultaneously
In the United States, gender differences in self-esteem
are most pronounced among ________ people.
white lower class
Katherine and Amy are members of the same sorority
at college and are members of the school's swim
team. They have been trying to master a difficult dive
from the high board at the college's swimming pool.
Amy is showing faster improvement in the dive than
Katherine is. If they compare their performance as
individuals, the self-evaluation maintenance model
suggests that
Katherine should dislike Amy more
Kim is an American who spent much of her childhood
in Japan. She is fluent in both English and Japanese.
We might reasonably expect her response to the
question "Who am I?" to differ depending on the
language used to ask
a particular language might activate different self-concepts
for bilingual people
Socially introverted individuals who use online social
media such as Facebook tend to
