Chapter 6: Identity and Personality Flashcards
Self-Concept
The sum of the thoughts and feelings about oneself
Self-Schema
Self-given labels that carry a set of qualities.
Ex: The “athlete” self-schema usually carries the quality of youth, physical fitness, and dressing/acting in certain ways.
Identity
Indiviual component of our self-concept related to the groups we belong in.
-Very close to self-concept, but it it not. We have multiple identities.
Ex: Religous affiliation, sexual orinetation, personal relationships etc.
Gender Identity
A person’s appraisal of him ot herself on scales of masculiinity and femininty.
Androgyny
The state of being simultaneously very masculine and very feminine.
Those who achiece low scores for masculinity and femininity are called ____.
Undifferentiated
Gender Schema
Key compenents of gender identity are. transmitted through cultural and societal means.
Ethnic Identity
Refers to one ethnic group, in which memebers typically share a common ancestry, cultural heritage, and language.
Nationality
Based in political borders. The result of shared history, media, cuisine, and national symbols such as a country’s flag.
Hierarchy of Salience
Theory of identity organization that posits that we let situations dictate which idenintity holds the most importance at any given moment.
Ex: A black acvtivist is more likely to stand up for things in his own community, then standing up for something thats happening in the white community.
Selft- Discrepancy Theory
- Acutal Self:
- Ideal Self:
- Ought Self:
- Acutal Self: The way we see ourselves as we currently are.
- Ideal Self: The person we weould like to be
- Ought Self: Our representation of the way others think we should be .
The closer our actual self, ideal self, and ought self are. The higher our ____.
Self-esteem
Self-esteem
An individuals feeling of self-worth
Self-Efficacy
Belieif in our ablity to succeed.
Learned Helplessnes
A state of being hopelessness and resignation resulting from being unable to avoid repeated negative stimuli; often used as a model of depression.
Ex: The dogs being shocked and not wanting to move. They just want the pain to stop. Even if the cage is opened for them. They just lay there helplessly hopeing someone stops the electrical shock pain.
Locus of Control
The way we characterize the infleunces in our lives.
Internal Locus of Control
When people view themseleves as controlling their own fate.
Ex: A student that fails a test will study harder because he or she belives that they didnt study hard enough.
External Locus of Control
When people feel that events in their lives are caused by luck or outside influences.
Ex: When a student fails a test, he or she blames the teacher or the rigor of the test.
List three factors that contribute to a persons ethnic identity.
Common Ancestry
Cultural Heritage
Language
Usually determined by birth
Fixation (Freaud Psychosecual Development)
Occurs whena child is overindulged or over frustrtaed during a stage of development. In response to the anxiety caused by fixation, the child forms a personality pattern based on that particular stage that persists into adult hood as a mental disorder know as NEUROSIS.
Freud: Psychosexual Development
Study on IPAD
Self-Efficay can cause ____.
Overconfidence
Zone of Proximal Development
Refers to those skills and abilities that have not yet fully developed but are in the process of development.
Ex: A child may struggle to ride a bike on his own, but with the help and guidance of a parent he may be successful.
Looking-glass-self
Social psychological construct stating that the self is developed through interpersonal reactions, specifically through a person’s understanding of the perception others have of them.