Exam 5 - Section 3 Flashcards
_________ - How we think of ourselves affects how we behave
Psychological self
_________– the facts and impressions that we consciously know and can describe
Declarative knowledge
_________- consciously aware of your traits
Declarative knowledge
_________
– Relational self
• patterns of social skills and styles of relating to others
Procedural knowledge
_________-part of you that is doing the perceiving
Implicit self
_________
• patterns of social skills and styles of relating to others
– Relational self
_________
• unconscious self-knowledge; we are not aware of these
characteristics, but they influence our behavior
Implicit self
_________- observing part of you, the part that noticing that you yourself are doing something
Implicit self
_________
• Related to dissatisfaction with life, hopelessness, delinquency, etc.
Low self-esteem
Attempts to increase self-esteem may be detrimental
• _________
increasing awareness
Self-esteem can be too high
• Related to problems in _________
relationships
How to legitimately increase self-esteem • _________
Accomplish important tasks
_________- who you want to be in the future impacts who we are right now
Possible selves
People that Want similar future selves choose similar _________
mates
_________
– The interactions between possible selves and the
actual self determine feelings about life
Self-discrepancy theory