Question 1

Aggressive people always have low self-esteem.

Accepted Answer

Although several researchers have speculated that having low self-esteem promotes aggressive and antisocial behavior, the reverse is actually true: aggressive people have higher self-esteem, not lower.

Question 2

You think your coworker will arrive late to the meeting, and she does. This is an example of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Self-fulfilling prophecy is a situation in which a prediction causes people to act and communicate in ways that make it come about. In this case, although you suspected your coworker would be late, your actions did not cause the lateness.

Question 3

Altering selfies before posting them onto social media is one example of how people try to control their image.

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The selfie allows you to exert a high degree of control over the way you present your image. You can give others the impression that you lead a more glamorous, enviable life than you might in reality. Between a third and a fifth of social media users admit to altering their selfies before posting them, according to research.

Question 4

Our life story is influenced by other people.

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As psychologist Dan McAdams has suggested, each of us develops a life story, a way of presenting ourselves to others that is based on our self-concept but is also influenced by other people. In this sense, image management is collaborative.

Question 5

Autonomy face refers to our need to be respected and have our abilities and intelligence acknowledged by others.

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Autonomy face refers to our need to avoid being imposed on by others. Competence face is our need to be respected-to have others acknowledge our abilities and intelligence.

Question 6

Your boss walks into the building, slams the door, and then calls you in to her office. Describe how you would use the three stages of perception to make sense of her behavior.

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Question 7

Choose someone from your life and briefly describe a recent interaction you had with him or her. Next, list the four perceptual schemas, or constructs, and explain how various details from your interaction would apply to each construct.

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Question 8

Suppose you are a member of an online group of single parents. Explain the values you might have as part of this co-culture, and describe at least two ways in which your cultural values might affect your perception of your workplace policies or the behaviors of your coworkers.

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Question 9

Using the process of stereotyping explained in your textbook, describe a time in your life in which you applied a stereotype to someone else. How did that stereotype affect your perception of the person and their communication behavior? Did the person ever behave in a way that challenged the stereotype about them and caused you to change your perception? What strategies could you have used to ensure that the stereotype did not cause you to misperceive the person's communication behavior?

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Question 10

Give an example from your own life of a time in which you demonstrated the self-serving bias while at work or at school.

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Question 11

Compare and contrast the self-serving bias and the fundamental attribution error. How are these two common attribution errors alike, and how are they different?

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Question 12

Choose a close relationship in your life and construct a Johari window to describe your self-concept with that person.

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Question 13

Imagine you will be speaking before a large audience at a business conference. How would you act and look if you were a high self-monitor? A low self-monitor?

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Question 14

Provide at least three examples of different identities that you assume throughout your day depending on the context. Examples can include both your real life and your online life.

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Question 15

List the three types of face needs and discuss which need is strongest in your life. Give an example of how a specific face need influenced your behavior in a certain situation.

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Quiz 5: Perspective Taking