____ In social identity theory, the process through which we draw sharp dividing lines between group membership categories and assign people (including ourselves) to relevant categories.
____ Part of dramaturgical sociology referring to the place where we present ourselves to others.
____ The part of the self that is active, engaging in interactions with others.
____ Our internalized, stable sense of who we are.
____ Interactionist theory that describes how society shapes our sense of self and how those views affect our behavior.
____ The ways individuals seek to control the impressions they convey to other people.
____ The impression you believe that you are giving.
____ The actual impression the other person has of you.
____ Our perceptions of our ability to control things important to us.
____ Our sense that we are important to other people in the world.
____ The theory based on the principle that we carry self definitions that match all the categories to which we belong.
____ Dimension of the Twenty Statements Test referring to our roles and statuses, such as student, daughter or son, or gender.
____ Information from others about our abilities used to derive mastery.
____ A way of building mastery by seeing other people perform tasks; it shows us that the task is accomplishable.
____ Anything we use to describe our individual nature.
____ The part of the self that includes an organized set of attitudes toward the self.
____ Dimension of the Twenty Statements Test referring to a holistic description of the self.
____ The study of how we present ourselves, playing roles and managing impressions during interactions with other people.
____ Inferences about our abilities based on our emotional states that we use to build our sense of mastery.
____ Being able to achieve what we start out to do; used in the development of mastery.
____ Dimension of the Twenty Statements Test referring to our physical characteristics like hair color or height.
____ Our ability to shift aspects of the self to become more or less important to our overall self-concept.
____ The ways that we believe others view us.
____ Dimension of the Twenty Statements Test referring to our feelings and traits like being shy or nice.
____ The internalized expectations associated with different positions.
____ A process in which we construct a sense of who we are through interaction with others.
____ The outcome of the self-process at a given point in time; the sum total of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves as an object.
____ A drive to maintain a consistent sense of self.
____ In social identity theory, the process through which we make comparisons that favor our own groups.
____ The positive or negative evaluation of our self as an object.
____ The desire to maintain positive self images.
____ Judgments we make of ourselves.
____ A process in which expectations produce a reality consistent with the assumptions.
____ The kind of person we see ourselves as.
____ The use of symbols and language to communicate internally.
____ Observations of our behavior and its consequences.
____ A temporally based sense of who we are.
____ The theory that incorporates elements of symbolic interactionism and identity theory to explain the role of emotion in identity processes.
____ Part of dramaturgical sociology referring to the region where we relax our impression management efforts.
____ Identities related to social groups to which we belong.
____ Using other people as a point of reference for our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
____ A form of self-definition used in social identity theory based on our group affiliations.
_____ Interactionist theory that argues that individuals have a tendency to seek confirmation of self-meanings
_____ The social construction of identities through the use of personal stories.