Chapter Preparation Guide 6
Chapter 2 COMMUNICATION AND IDENTITY
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Underline the True statement below:
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Who you think you are can be described as your self-concept.
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Self-esteem involves evaluations of your self worth.
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High self-esteem guarantees interpersonal success.
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Our genetic makeup has no impact on our personality.
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Reflected appraisal means that each of us develops a self-concept that reflects the way we believe others
see us.
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The influence of significant others becomes more powerful as we grow older.
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The reference groups against which we compare ourselves play an unimportant role in shaping our view of
ourselves.
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An ego booster is someone who helps enhance your self-esteem by acting in ways that make you feel
accepted, important and loved.
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The tendency to seek and attend to information that conforms to an existing self-concept has been labeled
cognitive conservatism.
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The way people view themselves is not affected very much by cultural differences.
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A self-fulfilling prophesy occurs when a person’s expectations of an event, and his or her subsequent
behavior based on those expectations, make the event more likely to occur.
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In order for another’s self-fulfilling prophecies to affect your own self-fulfilling prophecies, they must be
communicated to you.
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Your Perceived self is the person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination.
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One could say that identity management is deciding which role to play in each of the situations we face.
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One reason we manage our identities is to start relationships.
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Facebook has nothing to do with identity management.
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Identity management is not necessarily dishonest.
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Self-disclosure is the process of deliberately revealing information about oneself that is significant and
would not normally be known by others.
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One benefit of Self-Disclosure is that it may trigger self-disclosure by others.
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Fortunately, there are no risks associated with self-disclosure.
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Since there are no guidelines for when and how to self-disclose, we need to make a lot of guesses about
when and how much information to disclose.
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Silence is an alternative to Self-disclosure.