Behavioral Psychology CH. 11

Question 1

Self-Concept

Answer 1

Changes considerably early in life and then settles. When it is settled, it is used to evaluate the world, providing a sort of lens through which to view everything that is not-self.
• Who you are in terms of categories.

Question 2

Self-Esteem

Answer 2

refers to how you feel about your self.
• The evaluation of one’s self.
• We evaluate our selves within three categories:
• Appearance
• General performance
• Social interactions

Question 3

Social Identity

Answer 3

refers to the presentation of your self that you make to the world.

Question 4

Self-Efficacy

Answer 4

Is concerned with a sense of our own ability.

Question 5

Ideal Self

Answer 5

A view of our self as we would really like it to be rather than how it actually is.

Question 6

Ought Self

Answer 6

A self that is made up of what we believe that society wants from us, a self that upholds the moral and legal standards of society.

Question 7

Carl Roger’s Self actualized/actualizing

Answer 7

• They are steadily growing and evolving.
• They are open to experience and not defensive.
• They trust themselves, seeking guidance but making their own decisions.
• They have harmonious relations with others without needing to be liked by everyone.
• They live fully in the present, neither dwelling on the past nor looking to the future.

Question 8

Core Beliefs

Answer 8

Basic beliefs that each of us has that represent our fundamental view of the world and which colour our perceptions and our behaviors throughout most, if not all, of our lives.

Question 9

Beating the Blues

Answer 9

o Accept yourself for what you are.

o Challenge any thoughts that are negative about one’s self. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones.

o Consider positive points about oneself.

o Treat oneself with the same respect you would accord to others.

Question 10

Self-conciousness

Answer 10

the degree to which they monitor their own selves.

Question 11

Self

Answer 11

made up of a concept of the self (itself made up of beliefs, attitudes, values and opinions), self-esteem and social identity, in all of which there is a great deal of individual variation.

Question 12

Evoked Culture

Answer 12

May make behavior look like personality.

Question 13

Transmitted Culture

Answer 13

Beliefs and practices that are handed down.