Psychology 333 Final Exam – Comprehensive psychology course exam material
Self-Control - correct answer ✔✔The ability to adjust one's actions; especially to bring behavior
in line with societal standards, values, and expectations
• The overriding, inhibiting, or stopping of urges, emotions, moods, thoughts, or behaviors in
order to reach some goal
Limited Strength Model - correct answer ✔✔After exerting self-control, subsequent efforts at
self-control suffer
• Can become "depleted" (ego depletion)
• Not domain specific, but a general "pool" of
resources
• Resembles a muscle
Resource conservation - correct answer ✔✔Depletion makes self-control less likely, not
impossible
• Depleted participants will conserve resources for the future
Social Cognition - correct answer ✔✔Large movement within social psychology, to study how
people process information about the social world, particularly the self and other people
Schemas - correct answer ✔✔The mental representations with which people interpret the
objects and social situations in their world
Activation of Schemas - correct answer ✔✔Determined by:
• Availability: whether the schema exists or not
• Accessibility: how easy it is to access the schema
• Applicability: whether the schema is applicable to the situation
, • Salience: the degree to which a particular social object stands out compared to other social
objects in a situation
Priming - correct answer ✔✔the process that increases temporary accessibility; activates one
schema can also make related schemas more activated
"I" (ontological self) - correct answer ✔✔somewhat mysterious entity that does the observing
and describing
"Me" (epistemological self) - correct answer ✔✔sort of object that can be observed and
described
Two types of self-knowledge: - correct answer ✔✔• Declarative knowledge
• Procedural knowledge
Self-esteem - correct answer ✔✔your overall opinion about whether you are good or bad,
worthy or unworthy, etc.
Self-schema - correct answer ✔✔everything you know, or think you know, about your traits and
abilities
The Declarative Self - correct answer ✔✔Comprises all of your self-knowledge or opinions
about your own personality traits
Self-esteem and Self schema
Markus (1977) - correct answer ✔✔• Identified students who were "schematic for" the traits of
dependence and sociability through self-report
• Examined the association of these reports to reaction time responses of "me" or "not me"
Self-Control - correct answer ✔✔The ability to adjust one's actions; especially to bring behavior
in line with societal standards, values, and expectations
• The overriding, inhibiting, or stopping of urges, emotions, moods, thoughts, or behaviors in
order to reach some goal
Limited Strength Model - correct answer ✔✔After exerting self-control, subsequent efforts at
self-control suffer
• Can become "depleted" (ego depletion)
• Not domain specific, but a general "pool" of
resources
• Resembles a muscle
Resource conservation - correct answer ✔✔Depletion makes self-control less likely, not
impossible
• Depleted participants will conserve resources for the future
Social Cognition - correct answer ✔✔Large movement within social psychology, to study how
people process information about the social world, particularly the self and other people
Schemas - correct answer ✔✔The mental representations with which people interpret the
objects and social situations in their world
Activation of Schemas - correct answer ✔✔Determined by:
• Availability: whether the schema exists or not
• Accessibility: how easy it is to access the schema
• Applicability: whether the schema is applicable to the situation
, • Salience: the degree to which a particular social object stands out compared to other social
objects in a situation
Priming - correct answer ✔✔the process that increases temporary accessibility; activates one
schema can also make related schemas more activated
"I" (ontological self) - correct answer ✔✔somewhat mysterious entity that does the observing
and describing
"Me" (epistemological self) - correct answer ✔✔sort of object that can be observed and
described
Two types of self-knowledge: - correct answer ✔✔• Declarative knowledge
• Procedural knowledge
Self-esteem - correct answer ✔✔your overall opinion about whether you are good or bad,
worthy or unworthy, etc.
Self-schema - correct answer ✔✔everything you know, or think you know, about your traits and
abilities
The Declarative Self - correct answer ✔✔Comprises all of your self-knowledge or opinions
about your own personality traits
Self-esteem and Self schema
Markus (1977) - correct answer ✔✔• Identified students who were "schematic for" the traits of
dependence and sociability through self-report
• Examined the association of these reports to reaction time responses of "me" or "not me"
