Relationships and Self - Identity

Question 1

Self

Answer 1

Reflexive - what happens when “I” thinks about “me”

Question 2

Freuds Concept of the Ego

Answer 2

Part of the personality that engages in rational thought and copes with the demands of inner desires, subconscious motions, and the conscience

Question 3

Objective Social Variables

Answer 3

Factual and not subject to personal opinions

Question 4

Social Integration Factors

Answer 4

Size of social network, or social role you take on

Question 5

Subjective Social Variables

Answer 5

Related to feelings and not based in fact

Question 6

Social Support

Answer 6

Based on perceptions of our social network and availability of help

Question 7

Subjective well - being

Answer 7

Recorded using high life satisfaction, positive feelings, and low negative feelings using self report scales

Question 8

Ostracism

Answer 8

Leads to depression and loneliness, as well as overall loss of well - being

Question 9

Shunning

Answer 9

Small societies punish by withholding social contact

Question 10

Ethnographic Studies

Answer 10

Directly observe people

Question 11

How can we define concepts related to culture

Answer 11

1. Progressive Cultivation - formal etiquette, higher civilization vs. barbarians
2. Ways of life - traditions, religion
3. Shared learning - teachers, information sharing, cultural scripts

Question 12

Individualistic Cultures

Answer 12

Place an emphasis on personal achievement (western world)

Question 13

Collectivist Cultrues

Answer 13

Place an emphasis on meeting group expectations and goals

Question 14

Self - Construal

Answer 14

Defining our role in relation to others

Individualists - more likely to define an independent self

Collectivists - More likely to identify an interdependent self

Question 15

Gender Identity

Answer 15

Sense of being male, female, or a mix of masculine and feminine

Question 16

Cisgender

Answer 16

Biolgoical sex matches gender

Question 17

Transgender

Answer 17

Biological sex does not match gender

Question 18

Gender Role

Answer 18

Refers to cultural expectations of the way in which men and women should behave and think

Question 19

Gender Stereotypes

Answer 19

Beliefs about the behaviours, attitudes, and personalities of men vs women (eg. men shouldn’t cry and all women are nurturing)

Question 20

Sexual Orientation

Answer 20

Attraction and is independent of gender

Question 21

Sex Role Sterotypes

Answer 21

Between 3 - 6 years old, children start to develop gender constancy - at the same time, they are adopting rigid gender stereotypes.