What Is the Basis of Self-Discrepancy Theory

question 33

Multiple Choice

What is the basis of self-discrepancy theory?

• A) examining strategies people use to attain, maintain, and regulate a desired level of self-esteem
• B) linking emotional outcome to the distance between a person's actual self and that same person's ought and ideal selves
• C) understanding the process of how a person directs and guides her- or himself toward a desired state
• D) recognizing that an ideal self results from the intersection of the actual and ought selves in a given person's identity

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Definitions:

Price Supports

Government interventions in markets to maintain commodity prices at certain levels through subsidies, purchases, or other means to protect producers from market volatility.

Trade Barriers

Measures imposed by governments to restrict or control international trade, often to protect domestic industries.

Sugar

A sweet-tasting soluble carbohydrate obtained primarily from sugarcane and sugar beet, widely used as a sweetener in food and drinks.

Surplus Production

The situation where the quantity of goods produced exceeds the quantity of goods consumed.