Define Goffman's Term Impression Management and How It Is Connected

question 48

Essay

Define Goffman's term impression management and how it is connected to the work of George Herbert Mead.

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Definitions:

Positive Reinforcement

The process of increasing the likelihood of a behavior by following it with a pleasant or rewarding stimulus.

Conditioned

Refers to a behavior or response that has been learned or acquired through association with an environmental stimulus.

Frequency

The rate at which something occurs over a particular period of time or in a given sample.

Forgetting

A decrease in a response as a result of not being able to display it over time. Forgetting involves preventing a response from occurring for some period after it has been conditioned.