People are often motivated to enhance or protect their self-images. In what circumstances are self-image enhancement and protection especially important?
Describe three cognitive or behavioral strategies that people use for boosting and protecting their self-images.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Circumstances include various threats to self-esteem such as poor performance, negative interpersonal feedback, thinking about one's death, fragile or unstable self-esteem. Strategies include upward and downward social comparison, self-serving attributions, exaggerating our strengths, diminishing our weaknesses, believing we have control when it is possible, but giving up this perception when it is not possible.
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a. societal b. cultural c. genetic d. ageism
Which of the following statements about creative people is TRUE?
a. People who are geniuses, as measured by IQ tests, are almost always highly creative. b. Creative people tend to ignore irrational thoughts and downplay their own feelings and fantasies. c. Creative people tend to be more interested in truth and beauty rather than recognition or success. d. Highly creative people have a preference for simplicity.
Which of the following examples is most clearly abnormal according to the "subjective distress" definition of abnormality?
a. a mean, callous supervisor who remains unaware that his/her employees hate him/her b. a librarian whose religious hallucinations interfere with her ability to work c. a child whose IQ is below the cutoff point for mental retardation d. a high-functioning accountant who feels depressed about several aspects of his/her life
When surveyors ask parents and kindergarten teachers to identify school readiness indicators, teachers are more likely than parents to emphasize
A) ability to follow classroom rules. B) verbal communication skills. C) ability to count numbers. D) familiarity with the alphabet.