Chapter 2: Perception of self and others

Question 1

Self-concept

Answer 1

The image of who you are

Question 2

Looking-glass self

Answer 2

Look at the image of yourself that others reveal to you through the way they communicate with you

Question 3

Cultural teaching

Answer 3

Personal development using forms of cultural expression, arts and playing

Question 4

Self-awareness

Answer 4

Basic to all communication and is achieved when you examine several aspects of yourself as they might appear to others as well to you

Question 5

Open self

Answer 5

Represent all the information, behaviors, attitudes, and feelings about yourself that you and also others

Question 6

Blind self

Answer 6

Represent knowledge about you that others have but you don’t

Question 7

Unknown self

Answer 7

Represents those parts of yourself that neither you nor others know

Question 8

Hidden self

Answer 8

Represent all the knowledge you have of youself but keep secret from others

Question 9

Self-esteem

Answer 9

A measure of how valuable you think you are

Question 10

Cognitive self-esteem

Answer 10

Refer to your thinking about your strength and weaknesses about who you are versus who you’d like to be

Question 11

Affective self-esteem

Answer 11

Refers to the analysis of your own strength and weakness

Question 12

Behaviorial self-esteem

Answer 12

Refer to verbal and nonverbal behaviors such as your disclosure, assertiveness, conflict strategies, and gestures

Question 13

Self-destructive belief

Answer 13

Ideas you have about yourself that are unproductive or that make it more difficult for you to achieve your goals

Question 14

Impostor phenomenon

Answer 14

Refer to the disregard outward signs of success and to consider yourself an imposter that does not really deserve to be considered yourself

Question 15

Self-disclosure

Answer 15

Communicating information about yourself to another person

Question 16

Disinhibition effect

Answer 16

Occur in online communication

Question 17

Perception

Answer 17

Way of understanding the world; it helps you make sense of what things is

Question 18

Proximity

Answer 18

Physical closeness

Question 19

Impression formation

Answer 19

Refers to the processes you go through in forming an impression of another person

Question 20

Impression management

Answer 20

Refers to the process you use to give others the impression you want them to have

Question 21

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 21

A prediction that comes true because you act on it as if it were true

Question 22

Primary effect

Answer 22

If what comes first exerts the most influence

Question 23

Recency effect

Answer 23

If what comes last (or most recently) exerts the most influence

Question 24

Stereotype

Answer 24

A fixed impression of a group of people

Question 25

Attribution of control

Answer 25

A process by which you focus on explaining why someone behave as he or she did

Question 26

Self-serving bias

Answer 26

When take credit for the positive and deny responsibility for the negative

Question 27

Overattribution

Answer 27

Tendency to single out one or two obvious characteristics of a person and attribute everything that person does to these characteristics

Question 28

Fundamental attribution error

Answer 28

Occurs when you overvalue the contribution of internal factors and undervalue the influence of external factor

Question 29

Perception checking

Answer 29

Another way to reduce uncertainty and to ensure that your initial impressions are more accurate

Question 30

Positive face

Answer 30

The desire to be viewed positively by others, to be thought of favorably

Question 31

Negative face

Answer 31

The desire to be autonomous, to have the right to do as you wish

Question 32

Self-handicapping strategies

Answer 32

To excuse failure

Question 33

Self-deprecating strategies

Answer 33

To secure helps

Question 34

Self-monitoring strategies

Answer 34

To hide faults

Question 35

Image-confirming

Answer 35

To reinforce your positive perceptions about yourself