Exam 1 PSY 220

Self presentation is

• a basic and important aspect of human social life

• a result of low self esteem

• a way to pretend to be someone you are not

• a result of high self esteem

What's the most important ingredient(s) for facilitating self-concept change?

• commitment to change

• physically changing your behavior

• introspection

• the interpersonal context and how other people see you

3 main parts of the self are

• self esteem, self-understanding, and self-action

• self-knowledge, the agent self, and the interpersonal self

• the real self, the ideal self, and the future self

• the conscious self, the preconscious self, and the unconscious self

"Looking glass self" refers to

• we learn about ourselves from watching ourselves in glass

• we learn about ourselves from other people

• we tend to see parts of our own personalities in other people

• we tend to judge ourselves positively to how people see us

Most social psychology research is done on which group?

• Undergraduate college students

• prisoners

• older adults in nursing homes

• children in elementary school

natural selection most favors...

• the genes of people who are most physically fit

• the most unique (uncommon) genes in a population

• the genes of people who survive the longest (even if they do not reproduce)

• the genes of people who reproduce the most

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What is the "phenomenal self"

• idealized image of the self

• a person's sense of their contributions to personal relationships

• the image of the self that is currently active in a person's mind

• the part of the self that people openly share, or disclose with others

The part of the self that exerts control and makes choices is called the...

• director self

• agent self

• leader self

• control self

The average brain size of a species is most strongly linked to what?

• complexity of social structures

• emotional intelligence

• lifespan

• empathy

In order for humans to function effectively in society

• the automatic mind often needs to override the deliberate system

• the deliberate mind often needs to override the automatic system

• the automatic and deliberate systems need to work in unison

• • the automatic system must be permanently silenced