Chapter 2 Flashcards
can be defined as the individual as a whole, including all characteristics, attributes, mentality, and consciousness.
Self
seeing ourself at the center stage, thus intuitively overestimating the extent to which other’s attention is aimed at us
Spotlight
how we perceive ourselves as athletic/overweight/smart; it affect the way we perceive,
remember and evaluate other people and ourselves; we welcome information that is consistent with our “self- schemas”
Self-schemas
we dream of or dread; Both hoped-for and feared selves have been shown to motivate
individual to act; we develop strategies to achieve our hoped-for selves and avoid feared selves
Possible selves
mental templates by which we organize our worlds.
Schemas
Evaluating one’s opinions and abilities by comparing oneself with others
Social Comparison
privately take some pleasure in a peer failure
Schadenfreude
our use of how we think others perceive us as a mirror for
perceiving ourselves
looking-glass self
identity is self-contained; becoming self-reliant and defining one’s personal, independent self. The power of personal control
Individualism
construing one’s identity as an autonomous self.
Independent self
respecting and identifying with the group; with these culture people are more
self-critical and focus less on positive self-views
Collectivism
errors in predicting behavior is underestimating how long it will take to complete a task
Planning fallacy
Our — is curiously flawed. We often do not know why we behave the way we do. When influences upon our behavior are not conspicuous enough for any observer to see, we too can miss them. The UNCONSCIOUS, implicit processes that control our behavior may differ from our conscious, explicit explanations of it.
Self Knowledge
A persons overall self-evaluation or sense of worth.
Self Esteem
An inflated sense of self
Narcissism
