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13 Cards in this Set
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Self Concept
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The relatively stable set of perseptions you hold of yourself.
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Self Esteem
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The part of the self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth
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Personality
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Characteristic ways that you think and behave across a variety of situations. Your personality tends to be stable throughout your life, and often it grows pronounced over time
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Reflected Appraisal
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The fact that each of us develops a self-concept that reflects the way we believe others see us
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Significant others
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People who's opinions we especially value
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Social Comparison
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Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare with others
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Reference groups
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Groups against which we compare ourselves play an important role in shaping our view of ourselves
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Cognitive Conservatism
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The tendancy to seek and attend to inforation that conforms to an existing self-concept. It is a tendancy to cling to an existing self-concept, even when evidence shows that it is obsolete
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Self-fulfilling Prophecy
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Occurs when a person's expecatations of an event , and his or her susequent behavior based on those expectations, make the event more likely to occur than would otherwise have been true
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Four stages invloving Self-fulfillment prophecy
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1. Holding an expectation( for yourself or others)
2. Behaving in accordance with that expectaion 3.The expectation coming to pass 4. Reinforcing the original expectation |
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Identity Management
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The communication strategies that people use to influence how others view them
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Percieved Self
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A reflection of the self concept; the person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self examination.We can call it "private", because we are unlikely to reveal all of it to another person
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Presenting self
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A "public" image- the way we cant others to view us. It is also called one's face.
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