Ch 2

Question 1

Self concept

Answer 1

A set of relatively stable perceptions that each of us hold about ourselves

Question 2

Self-esteem

Answer 2

Our evaluations of self worth

Question 3

Personality

Answer 3

Characteristic ways hat you think and behave across a variety of situations

Question 4

Reflected appraisal

Answer 4

Metaphorically describes how we developed an image of ourselves from the way we think others view us

Question 5

Significant others

Answer 5

Ppl whose opinion we value most

Question 6

Self fulfilling prophecy

Answer 6

When persons expectation of an outcome, subsequent behavior, makes the outcome more likely to occurs that it would have been

Question 7

Steps in perception process

Answer 7

Selection, organization, interpretation

Question 8

Selection

Answer 8

The selection of which data we will attend to. If it’s intense (stands out) we see that first. Change in stimulation (nice person is being mean). Emotional state. My

Question 9

Organization

Answer 9

Arrange information we’ve selected in a meaningful way in order to make sense of the world. Physical construct, role constructs, interaction constructs, psychological constructs

Question 10

Interpretation

Answer 10

We interspersed all of this in a way that makes sense. First is our degree involvement w the person. Then personal experience, assumptions about human behavior, expectations, and knowledge of others.

Question 11

Influences on perception

Answer 11

Psychological, health and nutrition biological cycles, neurology. Cultural, sex and gender roles, occupational roles (the kind of work we do shapes how we see things), relational roles (mom, sister, friend)

Question 12

Narrative

Answer 12

The personal stories that we and others create to make sense of out personal world

Question 13

Differential treatment

Answer 13

Getting special treatment over someone else

Question 14

Attribution

Answer 14

The process of attaching meaning to behavior

Question 15

We make snap judgements

Answer 15

Stereotyping, categorizing others, ascribing characteristics to most or all members of a group, applying the generalization to one person

Question 16

Self-serving bias

Answer 16

In an attempt to convince ourselves and others that the positive face we show to the world is true, we ten to judge ourselves in the most generous terms possible

Question 17

Empathy

Answer 17

The ability to re create another persons perspective, to experience the world from another persons pov. Perspective taking, emotional concern, genuine concern

Question 18

Sympathy

Answer 18

You feel compassion for another persons predicament

Question 19

Perceived self

Answer 19

Reflection of the self concept, who you think you are in moments of honest self-evaluation

Question 20

Presenting self

Answer 20

Public image of how we want to appear to others

Question 21

Face

Answer 21

Describes presenting self

Question 22

Face work

Answer 22

Verbal and nonverbal ways we act to maintain our presenting image and image of others

Question 23

Characteristics of identity management

Answer 23

We have multiple identities, identity management is collaborative, identity management can be conscious or unconscious, some ppl are more aware than others about their identity