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Chapter 03: Communication and Personal Identity
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1. “You are an excellent athlete,” Kevin tells his daughter. Kevin’s statement is an example of
self-fulfilling prophecy.
2. Rules for how we are supposed to live and who we are supposed to be are known as
self-fulfilling prophecies.
3. Secure attachment styles tend to develop in children whose caregivers
are consistently loving and attentive.
are more often loving than rejecting.
alternately loving and rejecting.
are socially conservative.
are often more important than significant others.
Chapter 03: Communication and Personal Identity
Chapter 03: Communication and Personal Identity
Chapter 03: Communication and Personal Identity
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10. When we engage in social comparisons, what might we be doing?
measuring ourselves in relation to others by deciding we are like them or different from them
telling ourselves that we are good
measuring how long it takes us to invite that individual to converse
forming an identity script for what a friend is
forming a direct definition for the people we come into contact with
11. Which of the following refers to the attachment style that develops when a caregiver is disinterested, rejecting, or
abusive?
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21. Adults with anxious/ambivalent attachment styles are often inconsistent in giving/accepting affection and closeness.
22. The most basic insight into the self isn’t something we are born with but rather it develops as we communicate with
others and participate in the social world.
23. We learn our attachment styles in our relationships with our first caregivers.
24. The media is not a primary agent in teaching social perspectives.
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28. Direct definition usually occurs first in families.
29. Social comparisons are the most important influence on self-concept.
30. People with dismissive attachment styles have a negative view of themselves and a high regard for others and
relationships.
31. Upward comparison is the tendency to compare ourselves to people who exceed us in what they have or can do.
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35. The ____________________ is a process that involves internalizing and acting from social perspectives that we learn
in the process of communication.
36. ____________________ is communication that explicitly tells us who we are by specifically labeling us and reacting
to our behaviors.
37. A ____________________ is when we act in ways that bring about expectations or judgments of ourselves.
38. ____________________ are rules for how we are supposed to live and who we are supposed to be.
39. ____________________ are a person’s internal sense of where he or she stops and the rest of the world begins.
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40. ____________________ develop from patterns of parenting that teach us who we and others are and how to relate to
others.
41. The most positive attachment style is the ____________________ attachment style.
42. People with a(n) ____________________ attachment style may see themselves as unlovable.
43. ____________________ is the revelation of information about ourselves that others are unlikely to discover on their
own.
Chapter 03: Communication and Personal Identity
Chapter 03: Communication and Personal Identity
Chapter 03: Communication and Personal Identity