Identity and Perception MCQs
Identity and Perception MCQs
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1: _______________is, or the self is, the answer to the question “who am I?” with the added recognition that the “who” is always a little bit in flux, emerging from the cultures to which we belong.
A. Identity
B. Symbolic interactionism
C. Perception
D. Impression management
2: ____________________ are easy conclusions about people that reduce them from unique individuals to predictable types.
A. Prejudices
B. Stereotypes
C. Judgments
D. Estimations
3: ______________is, or the self is, the answer to the question “who am I?” with the added recognition that the “who” is always a little bit in flux, emerging from the cultures to which we belong.
A. Identity
B. Symbolic interactionism
C. Perception
D. Impression management
4: ________________ is how one sees the world, as influenced by the social, political, and cultural experiences that frame and mark her/him.
A. Identity
B. Symbolic interactionism
C. Perception
D. Impression management
5: ___________________ theorizes that the self is a product of the messages that it has encountered over past interactions.
A. Interpersonal communication
B. Symbolic interactionism
C. Critical pedagogy
D. Impression management
6: To wear, when to arrive, how and when to speak, and what to reveal and to whom.
A. Interpersonal communication
B. Symbolic interactionism
C. Critical pedagogy
D. Impression management
7: ________________________ isthe conscious ability to reproduce or resist social systems (the government or military, the health care industry, the educational system, the judicial system, and so forth).
A. Agency
B. Standpoint
C. Problematizing
D. Judging
8: Our ________________ are where we stand in relation to various categories or elements of difference—those markers that make us different from each other, whether race, economic background or ability.
A. Cultural location
B. Positionalities
C. Standpoint
D. Judgments
9: __________________ contends that we stand in relation to one another within systems of power—that is, we are people who occupy relationships to each other and that those relations are mediated by social, political, and economic power (Hartsock, 1999).
A. Cultural location theory
B. Positionality theory
C. Standpoint theory
D. Dialectic theory
10: A(n) ____________________ perspective assumes people are, essentially or fundamentally, their positionalities.
A. Essentialist
B. Performance
C. Stereotype
D. Prejudice
11: Unique individuals to predictable types.
A. Prejudices
B. Stereotypes
C. Judgments
D. Estimations
12: True/False: Rituals function to shape and define our identities.
A. True
B. False
13: _______________________ often involves communication choices such as what to wear, when to arrive, how and when to speak, and what to reveal and to whom.
A. Interpersonal communication
B. Symbolic interactionism
C. Critical pedagogy
D. Impression management
14: The self or the answer to the question “who am I?” with the added recognition that the “who” is always emerging from the cultures to which we belong is known as:
A. Perception
B. Identity
C. Symbolic Interactionism
D. Impression Management
15: How one sees the world, as influenced by the __________ experiences that frame and mark her/him.
A. Social
B. Political
C. Cultural
D. All of these
16: View of communication as a process, as a messy enterprise that we all engage in, searching for meaning in ourselves and in each other as we make our way through the world is known as:
A. Impression Management
B. Social Construction
C. Symbolic Interactionism
D. Agency
17: ____________ devised by George Herbert Mead and so named by Herbert Blumer, theorizes that the self is a product of the messages that it has encountered over past interactions.
A. Impression Management
B. Social Construction
C. Symbolic Interactionism
D. Agency
18: _______________ means Goffman’s contention that we build an impression of ourselves and for others.
A. Social Construction
B. Symbolic Interactionism
C. Agency
D. Impression Management
19: Agency is the conscious ability to reproduce or resist social systems.
A. True
B. False
20: A way of seeing yourself within social categories, always in relation to each other is known as:
A. Standpoint Theory
B. Cultural Location
C. Mythical Norm
D. Positionalities
21: _____________ is Audre Lorde’s metaphor for those who occupy positions of power in society; that they are “the norm,” or even average or typical, are a myth.
A. Dialectic
B. Standpoint Theory
C. Mythical Norm
D. Positionalities
22: Where we stand in relation to various categories or elements of difference
A. True
B. False
23: A theory that contends that we stand in relation to one another within systems of power is called____________ .
A. Dialectic
B. Standpoint Theory
C. Mythical Norm
D. Positionalities
24: Dialectic is a relationship between two opposites.
A. True
B. False
25: The assumption that people are, essentially or fundamentally, their positionalities is known as:
A. Essentialist Perspective
B. Stereotypes
C. Ritual
D. Performativity
26: _____________ means easy conclusions about people that reduce them from unique individuals to predictable types .
A. Essentialist Perspective
B. Stereotypes
C. Ritual
D. Performativity
27: _____________ is an identity theory that claims that who we are is the result of our repeated.
A. Performance
B. Stereotypes
C. Ritual
D. Performativity
28: Repeated actions that are not individual:
A. Performance
B. Stereotypes
C. Ritual
D. Performativity
29: Performativity is a process of a repetition of actions that produce identity.
A. True
B. False
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