Personal Adjustment Exam 2

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Self-concept

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An organized collection of believes about the self

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Possible selves

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Ones conceptions about the kind of person one might become in the future

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Self discrepancy

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Consist of a mismatch between the self perceptions that make up the actual self, ideal self, and art self.

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1) the actual self is at odds with the ideal self such triggering dejection related emotions such as sadness and disappointment

2) involves a mismatch between actual and art selves which produces agitation related emotions such as irritability anxiety and guilt

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What are the types of self-discrepancies?

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Social comparison theory

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Proposes that individuals compare themselves with others in order to assess their abilities and opinions. People compare themselves to others to determine how attractive they are, how they did on the history exam, how their social skills stack up, and so forth.

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Reference group

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Set of people who are used as a gauge in making social comparisons.

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Upward social comparisons

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Social comparisons that lead to motivation and direct your future efforts in a positive manner. For example, if you want to improve your tennis game, your reference group should be limited to superior players, who skills give you a goal to pursue.

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Downward social comparison

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Comparison in which you are looking to those you perceive to be worse off, thereby enabling you to feel better about yourself.

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True

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True or false there is strong evidence for a relationship between children's perceptions of their parents' attitude toward them and their own self-views?

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One's own observations, feedback from others, social context, and cultural values

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What are the factors that shape your self-concept?

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Individualism

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Involves putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group memberships

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Collectivism

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Involves putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the group one belongs to

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Self-esteem

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Refers to one's overall assessment of one's worth as a person. It is a global self-evaluation that blends many specific a valuations about one's adequacy as a student, an athlete, a worker, a spouse, a parent, or whatever is personally relevant.

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True

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True or false if you feel basically good about yourself, you probably have high self-esteem?

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Confident, taking credit for their success, not discouraged by failure, and ignore negative criticism

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What are some characteristics of people with high self-esteem?

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Confused and tentative; mood swings; self concepts are unclear, less complete, contradictory, and more susceptible to short term fluctuations; more focused on self protection and maintaining (not losing) whatever favorable sense of self-worth they possess.

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Characteristics of people with low self-esteem.

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State self-esteem

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A dynamic and changeable state of mind, referring to how individuals feel about themselves in the moment.

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True

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True or false self-esteem is something that fluctuates based on many life factors?

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Happiness and emotional health

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Self-esteem is strongly in consistently related to what

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Self-esteem is actually a subjective measure of one's interpersonal popularity and success.

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What does Mark Leary's Sociometer theory suggest about self-esteem?

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Narcissism

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The tendency to regard oneself as grandiosely self important, these people passionately want to think well of themselves and are highly sensitive to criticism; they are preoccupied with fantasies of success, believe that they deserve special treatment, and react aggressively when they experience threats to their self use.

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Acceptance and control

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What are the two major dimensions that underlie parenting behavior?

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Authoritative parenting

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Type of parenting in which The parents give high emotional support but our firm and set reasonable limits.

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High in both acceptance and control

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Authoritative parenting in regards to the two dimensions

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Authoritarian

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Parenting that entails low emotional support with rigid limits

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Low acceptance and high in control

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Authoritarian parenting in regards to the two dimensions of patenting

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Permissive parenting

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Parenting that uses high emotional support with few limits

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High in acceptance and low in control

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Permissive parenting in regards to the two dimensions of parenting

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Neglectful parenting

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Type of parenting that involves low emotional support and few limits. It is both low acceptance and

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Authoritative parenting is associated with the highest self-esteem scores across different ethnic groups

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Authoritative parenting in regards to self-esteem.

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True

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True or false high individualism is associated with high self-esteem?