Question

Read the paragraph and identify the type of influence on self-concept.

Terri was worried. She had studied hard and had found the test challenging but not overwhelming. Now, however, as her teacher picked up the stack of graded tests and prepared to hand them back, Terri felt an inner surge of panic. "What if I bombed!"

social comparison
perspective of others
culture
self-evaluation

Answer 1

When Terri becomes worried that she bombed the test right before the teacher hands the tests back, without talking to anyone, or even before the teacher hands a test to someone else, the influence on self-concept is probably from self-evaluation, as the latter is a process of observing, analysing and evaluating your own professional actions and results.

Answer 2

The fourth alternative is correct.

At all times the passage shows the restlessness of a person who was testing. Terri was unsure, though she apparently had enough knowledge to take the test. She considered the test challenging, but doable. The character of self-evaluation is expressed in Terri's nervousness in her thinking: "What if I bombed!"