Chapter 2 Flashcards
Self-concept
The relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself
Self-esteem
Part of the self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth
Self-Compassion
Being touched by one’s own suffering, generating the desire to alleviate one’s suffering and treat oneself with understanding and concern
Self-Control
Your ability to change your thoughts, emotions, moods, impulses or performance of some tasks in order to achieve a personal goal or meet a social or cultural expectation
How does the Self-Concept develop?
Social Interactions
Reflected Appraisal
Perceptions of judgements of those around them
Social Comparison
Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare with others
Individualistic culture
View their primary responsibility as helping themselves
Collectivist Culture
View their primary responsibility as helping their community
Characteristics of the Self-Concept
- Objective
- Flexible
- Resists change
Obsolete information
Old information we use to judge ourselves
Distorted Feedback
Overly Critical or unrealistically prositive remarks or actions that can create a self-image that is worse or better than the facts warrant
Social Expectations
The ways in which people are expected to behave in a particular social situation
Cognitive Conservatism
The tendency to look for information that conforms to an existing self-concept
Self-fulfilling prophecies
A belief that leads to its own fulfillment
What are the fours stages of self-fulfilling prophecies
- Holding an expectation
- Behaving accourding to the expectation
- The expectation coming to pass
- Reinforcing the original expectations
Self-imposed prophecies
When your own expectation influence your behaviour
Impression Management
The communication strategies people use to influence how other view them
Perceived self
The person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination. This is the “private self”
Presenting Self
The image a person presents to others. It may be identical to or different from the perceived and ideal self
Face
Socially approved identity
Facework
The verbal and nonverbal ways in which we act to maintain our own presenting image and images of others
Characteristics of Impression management
- Correct multiple idenitities
- Collaborative
- Deliberate or unconsious
- Different degrees of identity management
Why do we mange impressions?
- To follow social rules
- Personal reasons or to achieve relational goals
