Mary Goes on Her First Job Interview After Graduating from College

question 68

Multiple Choice

Mary goes on her first job interview after graduating from college. She gets up early that day to iron her clothes and fix her hair. According to Erving Goffman, this is an example of ______.

• A) the play stage
• B) the looking-glass self
• C) impression management
• D) symbolic interaction

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Definitions:

Castro Study

A reference to a classic study in social psychology that examined attitudes and persuasion, often associated with the elaboration likelihood model.

Fundamental Attribution Error

A cognitive bias that describes the tendency to overemphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while underestimating the influence of external factors.

Jones and Harris

Refer to a classical study in social psychology that explored the fundamental attribution error, demonstrating how people tend to attribute others' behaviors to their dispositions rather than to situational factors.

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.