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18 Cards in this Set
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self-concept
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the sum total of an individual's beliefs about his or her own personal attributes
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self-schemas
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beleifs people hold about themselves that guide the processing of self-relevant information
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affective forecasting
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the process of predicting how one would feel in response to future emotional events
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self-perception theory
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the theory that when internal cues are difficult to interpret, people gain self-insight by oberving their own behavior
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facial feedback hypothesis
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the hypothesis that changes in facial experssion can lead to corresponding changes in emotion
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overjustification effect
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the tendency for intrinsic motivation to diminish for activities that have become associated with reward or other extrinsic factors
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social comparison theory
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the theory that people evaluate their own abilities and opinions by comparing themselves to others
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two-factor theory of emotion
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the theory that the experience of emotion is based on two factors: psychological arousal and a cognitive interpretation of that arousal
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self-esteem
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an affective component of the self, consistenting of a person's positive and negative self-evaluations
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self-awareness theory
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the theory that self-focused attention leads people to notice self-discrepancies, thereby motivating either an escape from self-awarenes or a change in behavior
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private self-consciousness
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a personally characteristic o individuals who are introspective, often attending to their own inner states
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public self-consciousness
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a personality characteristic of individuals who focus on themselves as objects, as seen by others
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implicit egotism
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a nonconscious form of self-enhancement
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self-handicapping
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behaviors designed to sabotage one's own performance in order to provide a subsequent excuse for failure
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bask in reflected glory (BIRG)
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increasing self-esteem by associating with others who are successful
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downward social comparisons
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defensive tendencies to compare ourselves with others who are worse off than we are
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self-presentation
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strategies people use to shape what others think of them
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self-monitoring
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the tendency to change behavior in response to the self-presentation concerns of the situation
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