Personal Factors Influencing the Communicating Individual Flashcards
self-concept
stable set of perception of self
self-identity
the social positions you occupy; who you are in relation to other people; roles and positions in life
i.e. - daughter, student, friend, white, etc.
self-image
refers to one’s sense of one’s qualities, skills, attributions, and chacteristics
self-esteem
emotionally how you feel about yourself, how you rank yourself, positive and negative
Looking Glass Self Theory
through interactions with people we get our self concept; people act as those people are looking at us through glass
3 stages: (1) we imagine how actions appear to other people, (2) imagine how other people are judging these actions, (3) we make a self judgment based on the presumed judgment of others
-impact during early life (how your parents see you, ect) but is still open to modification as you grow
-our perceptions can be wrong, what you believe other people believe is more important that what they are actually thinking in defining ourself
-as we grow it takes a good deal of contradictory evidence to change our self concept
Interpersonal Imperative
foundation need of humans to socialize and communicate with other human beings; greatly seen when social interaction is cut off
3 basic needs
common among all members of the human race - need for inclusion, control, and affection
inclusion
healthy range - over-social = too mch need to be included, join everything; under-social = don’t want to belong to anything
control
over situations, over people
autocrats = too much need for control
abdicrats = too little of a control need, need someone to tell them what to do
affection
love , tenderness, kindness; give and get
too much = over-personal
too little = under-persona
belief
one’s personal position as to whether something is true or not; the more central or important a belief is for us, the greater the effect on us will be if that belief is changed
primitive, 100% consensus belief
derives from one’s own personal experience; everyone believes in it
primitive, 0% consensus belief
there are many difference of opinion in regard to this belief but you believe it regardless of what others believe
-political, religious, and philosophical beliefs fall into this category
authority beliefs
we believe because an authority tells us
derived authority beliefs
you believe something becuase of what an authority says, even thougoh the individual is not an expert or authority in the matter at hand, but i some other realm
inconsequential belief
we believe these to be true, but they are of no great importance; often merely matters of taste
attitudes
more typically beliefs plus an evaluation
ex/ beliefs about snakes (ugly, slimy, slithery) –> attitude = i don’t like snakes
values
\: based upon attitudes; strongly held general ideas; refer to large numbers of people or things over long periods of time ex/ value peace; konw of and believe in the existence of different cases in which people were treated as second class citizens because of their race; belief that there was no rational basis for this treatment; i have attitudes about each of these cases, that these actions were bad; value = equality
instrumental values
means values; uses these as a means to arrive at some end that you want to acheive; can only be understood in relation to terminal values
ex/ you value wealth or money instrumentally, because you believe that this will bring you happiness, your terminal value
terminal values
in and of themselves; refer to were you want to end up
Rokeach idea of self-concept
self-concept is the guiding goal and purpose of one’s system of beliefs, attitudes, and values; the ultimate purpose of on’s total system of beliefs, attitudes, and values is maintaining and enhancing self-regard
