Practice Quiz Chapter 02

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. What is impression management?

The use of good manners to create a favourable impression correct incorrect

The use of artifacts to create an intimidating persona correct incorrect

The conscious intention to make the best impression possible correct incorrect

The strategies people use to influence how other people view us correct incorrect

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. What are the three steps in perception checking?

Identify a behaviour, explain its effects, and explain your interpretation correct incorrect

Perceive an event, interpret the event, and assign significance to the event correct incorrect

Describe a behaviour, give possible interpretations of the behaviour, and ask for clarification correct incorrect

Take the other's perspective, identify emotionally, and show concern for the other correct incorrect

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. What is reflected appraisal?

The ability to change communication styles in response to others' needs correct incorrect

The idea that a person's self-concept aligns with the way the person believes others see him or her correct incorrect

The way that people react to the opinions of significant others correct incorrect

The idea that the self is shaped by the culture in which a child is raised correct incorrect

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. What is the correct definition for self-concept?

The assumption that everyone sees us the way we see ourselves correct incorrect

A set of perceptions about the self that remains relative stable correct incorrect

The ability to check one's perceptions for accuracy correct incorrect

A prediction about the self that comes to be true over time correct incorrect

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. What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?

A prediction that becomes an outcome because of a person's expectations correct incorrect

The belief that we have limited agency in our lives correct incorrect

A belief that fate shapes what happens to us correct incorrect

The sense of self-monitoring that leads a person to change communication styles correct incorrect

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. What does self-esteem refer to?

Your ability to monitor your speech and action correct incorrect

Your willingness to assert yourself as distinct correct incorrect

Your evaluation of your self-worth correct incorrect

Your sense of who you are as an individual correct incorrect

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. My close friend recently marked the one-year anniversary of her mother's death. On that day, I made a point of spending quiet time with my friend, knowing how alone and sad I had felt a few years earlier when I celebrated the first Christmas after my own mother's death. We drank tea and talked philosophically, and when we parted, we hugged tight for a long time. What do my actions reflect?

Sympathy correct incorrect

Empathy correct incorrect

Harmony correct incorrect

Perception-checking correct incorrect

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. What is the best metaphor for the self-concept?

A twin self correct incorrect

A light in the darkness correct incorrect

A personal bubble correct incorrect

A mental mirror correct incorrect

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. Where would a researcher expect to find a high degree of anxiety about communicating appropriately and not talking out of turn?

In an individualistic culture correct incorrect

In a collectivist culture correct incorrect

In a culture where very little communication is mediated correct incorrect

In a culture where most communication is mediated correct incorrect

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. Which term refers to the public image, or the image a person presents to others?

perceived self correct incorrect

presenting self correct incorrect

looking-glass self correct incorrect

self-concept correct incorrect

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. When one person's expectations affect the outcomes of another person's actions, it reflects a form of self-fulfilling prophecy.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. The less favourably we perceive a dimension of ourselves (for example, shyness or physical grace), the more often we will use that dimension for judging others.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. The labels we assign to others tend to be accurate because we form labels only after significant time and exposure.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. Tidying up before your parents arrive at your apartment door is an example of impression management.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. Impression management is a form of strategic communication.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. Empathy involves having compassion for another person's situation; sympathy is more personal and based on experience

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. In the context of communication and perception, a significant other is a person who has significant authority in our lives.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. Facework is the verbal and non-verbal behaviour we use to create and maintain our own identity and others' identities.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. Your perceived self is the person you believe yourself to be when you are honest with yourself.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect

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. English Canadians tend to be uncomfortable with silence.

TRUE correct incorrect

FALSE correct incorrect