Lesson Two Flashcards
Describe self concept.
Each one of us carries round with us our own personal idea of ourselves. Psychologists have found that the link between real measurable qualities and our impression of our own personal worth is pretty thin. We think too much or too little of ourselves, and one of the main factors in how we see ourselves is how other people see us.
-COOLEY(1902) described the self concept as the looking glass self. Meaning we see ourselves the way we think others see us.
Describe Rosenthal and Jacobsen’s 1968 experiment which found a simple way of testing the power of the self-fulfilling prophecy.
They went into an ordinary American school and gave the class a ‘special’ kind of intelligence test. It was only an ordinary test but they selected a number of children whose performance in the test was about average. Instead of speaking to the children directly, they allowed the class teacher to overhear a conversation in which they named these average children as ones who, on the basis of this test, were likely to make a spew in progress in the coming year. When they cam back a year later, they found that those children were now near the top of their classes.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
The ideas other people have about us often become a self- fulfilling prophecy. If they expect us to do well, we often do, and if they expect us to fail, this is exactly what happens.
What is self-image?
This is our attempt to describe the sort of person we are and what we can do.
What is self-esteem?
It is the estimation of our own worth. Are we good, bad or indifferent?
What is self-actualisation?
This mean ‘making real’ the different parts of our selves, developing our interests and abilities.
What is self awareness?
It is another quality usually associated with the healthy personality. This is the ability to understand and accept different aspects of our personality, the bad points as well as the good.
