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1
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What is Self-knowledge?

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A set of beliefs about onesself

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What is Interpersonel self?

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Public self- the image of the self that is conveyed to others

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What is the agent self?

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Executive function- th epart of the self involved in control, including both control over other people and self control

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What is Interdependent self construal?

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A self concept that emphasizes what makes the self different and sets it apart from others

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What is interdependent self contrual?

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A self concept that emphasizes what concepts the self to pther people and groups

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What are social roles?

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The norms that are embedded in are society that certain individuals perform

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What is self awareness?

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The attention directed at one’s self

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What is Private self awareness?

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Looking inward on the private aspects of self, including emotions, thoughts, desires, and traits

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What is Public self awareness?

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Looking outward on public aspects of the self that others ca see and evaluate

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What are standards?

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Ideas or concepts of how things might possibly be

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What is the proccess peopl;e use to control and change their thoughts feelings and behaviors?

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Self regulation

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What is public self consciousness?

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Thinking about how others p[ercieve you

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What is looking glass self?

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The idea that people learn about thewmselves by imagining how they appear to others

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What is a generalized other?

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A combonation of other peoples views who tell you who and what you are

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What is intro spection?

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The process where a person examines the content of their mind and mental states

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What is social comparasion?

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Examining the difference between oneself and another person

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What is upward social comnparasions?

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Comparing yourself to those that are better thasn you

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What is downard social comparasion?

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Comparing yourself to those that are worse off than you

19
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What is self perception theory?

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The theory that people observe their own behavior to infer what they are thinking and how they are feeling

20
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What is the Phenomenal self /(working self concept)?

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The image of self that is currently active in a persons thoughts

21
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What is intrinsic motivation?

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Wanting to perform an activity for its own sake

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What is extrinsic motivation?

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Performing an activity because of something that results from it

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What is overjustification effect?

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The tendency for intrinsic motivation to dominish for activities that have become associated with rewartds

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What is the appriasial motive?

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The simple desire to learn the truth about one’s self

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What is the self- enhancement motive?

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The desire to learn favorable or flattering things about ones selfq

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What isconsistency motive?

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A desire to get feedback that confirms what the person already believes about themselves

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What is Self handicapping?

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Putting obstacles in the way of one’s own performance so that the anticipated or possible failure can be blamed on the obstacle instead of on lack of ability

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What is automatic egotism?

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Response by the automatic system that everything good is me and everything bad is not me

29
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What is self reference effect?

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The finding that information bearing on the self is processed more thouroughly and more deeply and hence remembered better than other information

30
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What is the endowment effect?

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The finding that items gain value to the person who owns them

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What is self esteem?

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How favorably someone evaluates himself or herself

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What is self protection/

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Trying to avoid loss of esteem

33
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What are self depiction stratagies?

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Mental trciks people use to help them believe things are false

34
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What is a sociometer?

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A measure of how desirable one would be to other people?

35
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What is Narcissism?

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EXCESSIVE SELF LOVE AND SELFISH ORIENTATION

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What is self presentation?

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Any behavior that seeks to convey some image of self or some information about the self to other people

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