SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ONLY 3 QUESTIONS, The first question is short answer so about 3-4 sentences and the next two questions are multiple choice
PSYC Chapter 2: Self-Concept Female #1: Me personally, I have, like, high self- esteem at times. But other times it’s just low. And I guess that’s normal. But I don’t consider myself, like, up there all the time. And I get it from my friends, because they’ll tell me “Oh, that looks nice on you,” or “Oh, you can do this. I know you can. I’ve seen you do it; you’ve done it before. “ You would think I would get it from my family since they always encouraged me, but I guess friends are more powerful than family, even though that’s hard to believe at times. But they are more powerful. Their words, their actions. Because they’re your age and they see a lot of things you’re going through. Female #2: There’s some parts of me that I’m happy with but, like—I mean, I guess this is normal for every teenage girl. I’m not very happy with my, like, appearance or whatever.And I know this sounds really shallow, but I get it from like, the opposite sex too. Like, if a guy tells me that I look pretty. Like, that like puts me up there so high. I’m, like, “Oh my gosh,” you know. Like, whereas like, if my girlfriend said it, I’m like “Oh, that’s awesome,” but they’re just girls. Like when you family tells you, like, you did something good, like “Oh, good job,” it’s like “I’m your daughter. You have to say that.” Female #3:It doesn’t matter who says it to me, who, like, tells you “Oh, you did a really good job on that.” Like, it just—it helps you. Like, it could come from a person walking down the street, like, and they just smile at you. That like just makes—sometimes that just makes your whole day a lot better. Like, wow. But also sometimes with your friends, if they tell you something that they—they’re just giving you their honest opinion that they think you can’t do it. Maybe just like that one little word saying “I don’t think you can do it.” It can bring you down so much. In the same way that someone else can just say “I know you can do it,” it can just bring you up so high. So everything has its ups and downs. I think if we lived, like, in the past, when girls were told, like, “You can’t get a job. You can’t become a doctor.” Like, that would it would bring down our self-esteem. But since now we’re being told that “You can do this” and “It doesn’t matter who you are. It doesn’t matter how you look like. You can do it,”it’s a lot easier for people. Questions 1. If you were tasked with creating a program to improve teens’ self-concept, where would you target your resources? What sort of program would you create? 2. Which of the following was NOT listed in the video as an influence on the teens’ self-concept? •
people on the street
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peers
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media sources
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opposite sex
3. The teens in the video thought that self-esteem for girls was •
higher in previous generations.
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lower in previous generations.
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about the same in previous generations.
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irrelevant.