Chapter 1: The self

A research method that involves a test of a hypothesis under carefully controlled conditions

laboratory experiment

Any measurable phenomenon that varies

variable

The group in a laboratory experiment that undergoes the experience that researchers believe might influence the dependent variable

experimental group

The group in a laboratory experiment that does not undergo the experience that researchers believe might influence the dependent variable

control group

Assertions that an independent variable is directly and specifically responsible for producing a change in a dependent variable

causal claims

Assertions that changes in an independent variable correspond to changes in a dependent variable but not in a way that can be proven causal

correlational claims

A story we tell about the origin and likely future of ourselves

self-narrative

looking-glass self

looking-glass self, the self that emerges as a consequence of seeing ourselves as we think other people see us

self-fulfilling prophecy

a phenomenon in which what people believe is true becomes true, even if it wasn’t originally true.

self-narrative

a story we tell about the origin and likely future of our selves.