Chapter 2

Front 1

Self Concept

Back 1

The relatively stable set of perseptions you hold of yourself.

Front 2

Self Esteem

Back 2

The part of the self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth

Front 3

Personality

Back 3

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

Front 4

Reflected Appraisal

Back 4

The fact that each of us develops a self-concept that reflects the way we believe others see us

Front 5

Significant others

Back 5

People who's opinions we especially value

Front 6

Social Comparison

Back 6

Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare with others

Front 7

Reference groups

Back 7

Groups against which we compare ourselves play an important role in shaping our view of ourselves

Front 8

Cognitive Conservatism

Back 8

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 It is a tendancy to cling to an existing self-concept, even when evidence shows that it is obsolete

Front 9

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Back 9

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

Front 10

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

Front 11

Identity Management

Back 11

The communication strategies that people use to influence how others view them

Front 12

Percieved Self

Back 12

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

Front 13

Presenting self

Back 13

A "public" image- the way we cant others to view us. It is also called one's face.