2008PSY Social Psych Mid-Tri Exam prep - Week 3

According to Social Identity theory, If I referred to myself as someone who likes pubs because I am English, this would be a...

• Social Identification

• Personal Identification

• Social Self-description

• Personal Self-description

Which of the following is not a 'Type of Self' according to Brewer and Gardner (1996)?

• Social Self

• Individual Self

• Collective Self

• Relational Self

The relational self is defined by dyadic relationships such as 'Friend of Fred'

• True

• False

Which of the following is true of Self-Schema? (tick all that apply)

• We use self-schema in organizing information, beliefs, and impressions

• Self-schema can influence the effectiveness of both memory formation and memory recall

• Self-schema are a set of organized beliefs and feelings about people that guides how information is processed

• Self-schema is always an accurate representation of our world as it relates to us

Whenever Seb is out in public he is always concerned about how others are thinking, feeling, or acting toward him, and this guides how he behaves. According to Markus and Kitayama (1991), what type of self would we say is applicable to Seb?

• The Independent Self

• The Ideological Self

• The Interdependent Self

• The Ought Self

For an individual who fits into the category of the 'Independent Self', what would we use to predict that individuals behaviour?

• How others act toward the individual

• How the individual's family reacts to them

• The attributes of the individual

• The individual's attitudes

Michael's self-structure is fluid, and changes dependent on context, which culture is Michael more likely to be from?

• A collectivist culture

• A culture with a low power distance

• An individualistic culture

• A western culture

In Bochner's 1994 study of cross-cultural differences in self-concept, what were the findings?

• Australians and British scored lower of group descriptors than Malaysians

• Malaysians and the British scored higher on group descriptors than Australians

• Australians scored higher on ideocentric descriptors than Malaysians

• Both B and C

• Both A and C

In a study looking a differences of culture within a nation (Purdie and MacCrindle, 2004), on what dimensions of self-concepts did Indigenous peoples score higher than non-Indigenous peoples?

• Self-acceptance

• Peer aspects

• Academic achievement

• Family aspects

• General school aspects

Which of the following statements is false regarding how gender impacts self-concepts?

• Men are more independent

• Women are more interdependent

• Women have more collective interdependence

• None of the above