Chapter 8 Review Questions

  1. As a culture, do we Americans value personal identity?
  2. 2 What is a modal self? What kind of modal self best fits into the Colonial era? How did this modal self change with the Industrial Revolution? What was the modal self like as the twentieth century emerged?
  3. What are the attributes of character? What are the attributes of personality?
  4. What did Bortree learn about personal blogs assembled by teenager girls? 
  5. According to Kenneth Gergen, how is the self today (the postmodern or saturated self) different from the modern self? Why is the self changing?
  6. What is the self-concept? How is it different from personality?
  7. What are the five different theories on self offered in the text?
  8. What is the narrative self?
  9. According to McAdams, what are the most significant primary elements?
  10. What is a psychosocial moratorium?
  11. What is the schematic self?
  12. What is the behavioral self?
  13. What is the relational self?
  14. According to Cooley's looking glass self, what are the essential elements in the self-concept?
  15. According to Lederman, what is the presenting self?
  16. What is self-talk and how does it work to help us maintain valued self-concepts?
  17. According to Zen philosophy, how important is the individual self? Is it something to be valued or to be eliminated?
  18. What is a life script?
  19. How does a self-handicapping strategy work?
  20. What is your own communicator style? What style elements were high and what were low for you? What does that say about you as a communicator?
  21. What is a noble self? How will he or she act? What is a rhetorical reflector? How will he or she act?
  22. What five principles does the Rhetorical Sensitive believe about the self and about communication?
  23. What is communication apprehension?
  24. What is attachment style? How does it relate to communication in later life?
  25. What is intimacy motivation? How do people high in intimacy motivation act?
  26. What is self-disclosure? What is flooded and premature disclosure?
  27. What rules should one follow in self-disclosure?
  28. What are the strategies outlined in the text for coming out and receiving another’s disclosure?
  29. What is the point of Big Eden in the Screening Room segment? 
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