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    Done for Ms. Pat Paoli Speech 120, College of San Mateo, october 2009.

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    Chapter 2 study questions

    1. What is the Self-Concept?


    a) How you frequently view yourself or see yourself.
    How does it develop?
    a) It develops through-out your life by what you hear said about yourself and
    how you see yourself as you doing things.
    1. What is the reflected appraisal?
    “the fact that each of us develops a self- concept that reflects the way we
    believe others see us.”
    2. Ego Booster Exercise: Give an example from your own life when: 1) You were
    an ego booster to someone : I am an ego booster to my brother when I hang
    out with him and I ask him to go with me places, b/c I usually don’t ask him to
    do anything with me, and when he comes with me I talk to him positively. 2)
    You were an ego buster to someone: I can’t recall and instant when I was an
    ego buster, maybe sometime in middle school. 3) When someone was an ego
    booster to you: I went up to Oregon to visit my best friend one year and she
    showered me/w compliments and since then ive been really talkative and
    outgoing. 4) when someone was an ego buster to you: I think someone told
    me I was ugly but that’s all I can remember.
    3. What are two types of social comparison?
    a) Superior or inferior: are we better than someone or worse?
    b) the same as or different: is what I do accepted or weird?
    1. Give an example from your own life when you were affected by social
    comparison: I used to see people on all my sports teams as superior to me, I
    saw them all as better than me. I have no idea why. This made me quiet
    around them and insecure.
    2. Read “Cipher in the snow.” What do you think the moral of the story is?: The
    moral of the story is to not put people down and to push people up so that
    they don’t do what cliff did or become like him. No one deserves to feel like
    that or be treated that way.
    3. Define the self-fulfilling prophesy.
    a) “When a person’s expectations of an event, and his or her subsequent
    behavior based on those expectations, make the event more likely to
    occur than would have otherwise have been true.”
    1. Give an example from your own life when the self-fulfilling prophesy resulted
    from your expectations of the outcome of the event : I believed I was going to
    hit a ball to the outfield and I did. 
    2. Give an example from your own life when the self-fulfilling prophesy resulted
    from someone else’s expectations of your performance: I think this happened
    in softball too, someone said “shes going to hit s triple” and I did.
    3. What are four ways of changing your self-concept?
    a) Have a realistic perception of yourself- Don’t say im more beautiful than
    anyone.
    b) Have realistic expectations-Don’t say im gonna go out with that guy
    tomorrow.
    c) Have the will to change- Don’t think im awesome I don’t need to
    d) Have the skill to change-Know how to go about doing things.

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