PSY 350 Exam 2 – Questions With Factual Solutions
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Terms in this set (93)
Self-presentation Attempt to control other's impressions of ourselves
To acquire desirable Why do we self-present?
resources
To help "construct" our self-
images
To enable our social
encounters to run more
smoothly
Keeps ourselves safe
Acquire allies/friends
Acquire mates
To make social interactions smooth, there are general
Dramaturgical perspective
social scripts.
When reluctant to go against other's presentations, we
Save Face let them get away with public presentations that may
not be accurate.
In the public eye When do people self-present?
Greater self-awareness
When observers control
something we desire
goal(s) are important to us
if we believe the observer
does not hold a favorable
impression of ourselves
when we're alone
overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our
Spotlight effect appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we
presume a spotlight shines on us)
, High self-monitors Who is more likely to self-present?
Women who want to
appear likable
Men who want to appear
dominant
Self-Monitoring Tendency to be concerned with one's public image
Goal: to appear likable to others
What is ingratiation
1. Expressing liking for others
strategies and what is it
2. create similarity
for?
3. Appearing attractive
4. Project modesty
Goal: To appear more What are self-promotional strategies and what is it for?
competent to others
1. Staging performances
2. Claim competence
3. Use trappings of
competence
4. Make excuses for failure
protecting one's self-image with behaviors that create a
self-handicapping handy excuse for later failure; a type of self promotional
strategy
Goal: to convey status and What is status and power-enhancing strategies and what
power is it for?
1. Display artifacts of
power/status
2. Conspicuous
consumption
3. Personal associations
4. Nonverbal displays like
body language
"Basking in reflected glory." a strategy by which we
BIRGing reinforce our positive self-concepts by identifying
ourselves with successful others
"Cutting off reflected failure." the process of distancing
CORFing ourselves from unsuccessful, low-status others or
events
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Terms in this set (93)
Self-presentation Attempt to control other's impressions of ourselves
To acquire desirable Why do we self-present?
resources
To help "construct" our self-
images
To enable our social
encounters to run more
smoothly
Keeps ourselves safe
Acquire allies/friends
Acquire mates
To make social interactions smooth, there are general
Dramaturgical perspective
social scripts.
When reluctant to go against other's presentations, we
Save Face let them get away with public presentations that may
not be accurate.
In the public eye When do people self-present?
Greater self-awareness
When observers control
something we desire
goal(s) are important to us
if we believe the observer
does not hold a favorable
impression of ourselves
when we're alone
overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our
Spotlight effect appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we
presume a spotlight shines on us)
, High self-monitors Who is more likely to self-present?
Women who want to
appear likable
Men who want to appear
dominant
Self-Monitoring Tendency to be concerned with one's public image
Goal: to appear likable to others
What is ingratiation
1. Expressing liking for others
strategies and what is it
2. create similarity
for?
3. Appearing attractive
4. Project modesty
Goal: To appear more What are self-promotional strategies and what is it for?
competent to others
1. Staging performances
2. Claim competence
3. Use trappings of
competence
4. Make excuses for failure
protecting one's self-image with behaviors that create a
self-handicapping handy excuse for later failure; a type of self promotional
strategy
Goal: to convey status and What is status and power-enhancing strategies and what
power is it for?
1. Display artifacts of
power/status
2. Conspicuous
consumption
3. Personal associations
4. Nonverbal displays like
body language
"Basking in reflected glory." a strategy by which we
BIRGing reinforce our positive self-concepts by identifying
ourselves with successful others
"Cutting off reflected failure." the process of distancing
CORFing ourselves from unsuccessful, low-status others or
events
