Chapter 3: The Self
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Self-Knowledge(Self-concept) | a set of beliefs about oneself |
| Interpersonal self(public Self) | the image of the self that is conveyed to others |
| Agent self(executive function) | the part of the self involved in control, including both control over other people and self-control |
| Self as impulse | a person's inner throughts and feelings |
| Self as institution | the way a person acts in public, especially in official roles |
| Independent self-construal | a self-concept that emphasixes what makes the self different and sets it apart from others |
| interdependent self-construal | a self-concept that emphasizes what connects the self to other people and groups |
| Social Roles | the different roles a person plays, as in a play or a movie |
| Self-Awareness | attention directed at the self |
| private self awareness | looking inward on the private aspects of the self, including emotions, thoughts, desires, and traits |
| public self-awareness | looking inward on the private aspects of the self, including emotions , thoughts, desires, and traits |
| public self-awareness | looking outward on the public aspects of the self that others can see and evaluate |
| standards | ideas (concepts) of how things might possibly be |
| public self-consciousness | thinking about how others perceive you |
| self-regulation | the rpocess people use to control and change their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors |
| looking-glass self | the idea that peole learn about themselves by imagining how they appear to others |
| generalized other | a combination of other people's views that tells you who and what you are |
| introspection | the process by which a person examines the contents of his or her mind and mental states |
| Social comparison | examining the difference between oneself and another person |
| upward social comparison | comparing yourself to people better than you |
| downward social comparison | comparing yourself to people worse off than you |
| self-perception theory | the theory that poople observe their own behavior to infer what they are thinking and how they are feeling |
| phenomenal self (working slef-concept) | the image of self that is currently active in the person's thoughts |
| intrinsic motivation | wanting to perform an cativity for its own sake |
| extrinsic motivation | performing an activity because of something that results from it |
| overjustification | the tendency for intrinsic motivation to diminish for activities that have become associated with rewards |
| appraisal motive | the simple desire to learn the truth about oneself, whatever it is |
| self enhancement motive | the desire to learn favorable of flattering things about the self |
| consistency motive | a desire to get feedback that confirms what the person already believes about himself to herself |
| self handicapping | putting obstacles in the way of one's own performance so that anticipated or possible failure can be blamed on the obstacle instead of on lack of ability |
| automatic egotism | response by the automatic system that "everything good is me, and everything badis not me" |
| self-reference effect | the finding that information bearing on the self is processed more thoroughly and more deeply, and hence remembered better, than other information |
| endowment effect | the finding that items gain in value to the person who owns them |
| self-esteem | how favorably someone evaluates himself or herself |
| self-protection | trying to avoid loss of esteem |
| self-deception strategies | mental tricks people use to help them believe things that are false |
| self-serving bias | a pattern in which people claim credit for success but deny blame for failure |
| sociometer | a measure of how desirable one would be to other people |
| narcissim | excessive slef-love and a selfish orientation |
| self-presentation | any behavior that seeks to convey some image of self or some information about the self to other people |
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