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Social constructionism

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The beliefs and shared understandings of individuals create social realities i.e. Social constructionism could be involved in healthcare disparities, such as in the process of building our societal understanding of healthcare and illness, but is not as directly related to healthcare disparities

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Symbolic interactionism

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Allows for social determination of shared realities Focuses on a smaller scale of interaction between individuals and small groups

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Functionalism

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Claims that society just like an organism that consists of different components working together examines the harmonious functioning of social institutions and thus is not generally used to examine societal problems like health care disparity

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Conflict theory

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Views society in terms of competing groups that act according to their own self-interest Addresses inequalities between social groups that have the potential to lead to societal conflict

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Social norms

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Expectations that govern what behavior is acceptable within a group

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Symbolic culture

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A type of non material culture that consists of the elements of culture that have meaning only in the mind For example: handshake Symbolic meanings are culturally situated and are determined by experiences and socia interactions

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Society

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A group of people who share a culture Can consists of multiple culture like the USA

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Social movement

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A group of people who share an ideology and work together toward a specified set of goals

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Spatial inequality

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The unequal access to resources and variable quality of life within a population or geographical distribution. Can be affected by income, unemployment and unequal access to resources such as education and clean water. Influences health by affecting access to doctors, diagnostic equipment, and options of treaments. Can exist on a global, national, or local level.

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Environmental justice

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The equal treatment of all people regardless of race, gender, or other social grouping with regard to prevention and relief from environmental and health hazards.

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Residential segregation

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An instance of social inequality on the local scale.

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Social class

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A system of stratification that groups members of society according to similarities in social standing

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Class

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is multifaceted and tied to status within a community and power, or influence over that community

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Prestige

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the relative value assigned to something within a particular society exp: including holding aristocratic titles, maintaining a respected occupation or conspicuous consumption of luxury goods

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Associative learning / Conditioning

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Learning that involves associations between certain stimuli and specific responses 2 types: _ Classical conditioning _ Operant conditioning

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Classical conditioning

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Where a test subject develops a response to a previously neutral stimulus by associating the stimulus with another stimulus that already elicited that response

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Neutral stimulus

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a stimulus eliciting no response

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Acquisition

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a stage of learning over which a conditioned response to a new stimulus is established

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Spontaneous recovery

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the reappearance of the conditioned response after a period of lessened response

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Extinction

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the disappearance of the conditioned response of salivation

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Stimulus generalization

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The tendency to respond to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus

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Stimulus discrimination

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The learned lack of response to ta stimulus similar to the conditioned stimulus

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Operant conditioning

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A type of associative learning in which an individual becomes more or less likely to carry out a certain behavior based on its consequences Involves learning the consequences of behaviors and adjusting the frequencies of those behaviors in response to the consequences

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Innate behaviors

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Behaviors that are developmentally fixed Heavily influenced by the physiology and genetic inheritance of the organism and are difficult or impossible to change through learning

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Mirror neurons

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fire both when a person is completing an action and when the person observes someone else completing the same action help humans understand the actions of others and learn by imitation

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Vicarious emtions

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feeling the emotions of others as though they are ones’s own

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Social behavior

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broadly defined as all interactions taking place between members of the same species

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Foraging behavior

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The set of behaviors through which animals obtain food

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Inclusive fitness

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describes overall fitness by considering not only the individual’s own progeny, but also the offspring of its close relatives

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Game theory

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The use of mathematical models to represent complex decision making in which the actions of other group members must be taken into account

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Group

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A set of individuals who interact with each other and share some elements of identity

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Organization

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A collection of individuals joining together to coordinate their interactions toward a specific purpose

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Impression management

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The process of consciously making behavioral choices in order to create a specific impression in the minds of others the process of modifying one’s behavior in order to consciously change the perception that others have of oneself; does not involve self-image

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Dramaturgical approach

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using a metaphor from the theater to help explain human behavioral patterns in social situations

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Groupthink

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The phenomenon where a group’s members tend to think alike and agree for the sake of group harmony when unpopular opinions are silenced in order to attain consensus in decision making

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Group polarization

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occurs when through the interactions and discussions of the group, the attitude of the group as a whole toward a particular issue becomes stronger than the attitudes of its individual members

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Social facilitation

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The tendency to perform better when a person knows he is being watched

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Bystander effect

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where onlookers in a crowd fail to offer assistance to a person who is in trouble because they assume that someone else will help

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Diffusion of responsibility

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Where people in a large, anonymous crowd are less likely to feel accountable for the outcome of a situation or to feel responsibility to take action

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Social loafing

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Occurs when members of a group decrease the pace or intensity of their own work with the intention of letting other group members work harder

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Deindividuation

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Occurs when people lose awareness of their individuality and instead immerse themselves in the mood or activities of a crowd.

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Demographics

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are societal categories that include age and educational level

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Cultural capital

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is what you know

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Social capital

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is who you know

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Socioeconomic status

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describes both economic position, in terms of income and acquired wealth, and social position, in terms of factors like education and profession

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Social reproduction

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The transmission of social inequality from one generation to the next

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Absolute poverty

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is not defined by comparisons with others

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Relative poverty

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compare themselves with others

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Social exclusion

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The systemic exclusion of individuals or groups from certain rights, opportunities, or meaningful participation in certain aspects of society

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Cultural relativist

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Attempt to understand a culture on its own terms, recognizing that each culture has different values and standards. Cultural relativism specifically does not imply comparisons between cultures,

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Personality

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The collection of lasting characteristics that makes a person unique consists of a set of traits

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Traits

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characteristics that vary between people and are stable over the course of the lifetime, regardless of environmental factors They are continuous variables rather than categorical

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Biological theory

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focuses on biological contributions to certain traits assumes that a person’s genome contributes to the formation of personality and that personality traits differ in the extent to which they are influenced by heredity versus environmental factors

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Temperament

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an innate, genetically influenced “baseline” of personality that includes the infant’s towards certain patterns of emotion and social interaction Temperament is then modified by environmental influences

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Psychoanalytic theory

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Proposes a universal personality structure that contributes both to behavior and to differences between people Stands in contrast to trait theories and biological theories, which do not focus on the internal processes that shape personality and translate personality traits into behaviors The most important feature os psychoanalytic theory is the assumption that crucial personality processes take place outside of conscious awareness. Though the dynamics of the three personality structures determine the characteristics and behaviors of an individual, the conflict does not take place in the individual’s conscious awareness Another important aspect of this theory is that early experiences can have lasting effects on the individual throughout life

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Freud theory (psychoanalytic theory)

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Personality is determined by the flow of psychic energy between three systems that reside in different levels of consciousness: the id, the superego, and the ego

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The id

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The most primitive part of personality, which seeks instant gratification with no consideration for morality or social norms It is present from birth and is motivated by the desire to achieve immediate gratification and avoid pain

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The superego

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Develops later in life through internalization of society’s rules for moral behavior, learned primarily through interactions with caregivers

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The ego

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The part of personality that is forced to direct behavior in a way that balances the demands of the id and the superego The ego forces the delay of gratification of the id’s desires until a socially acceptable method of gratification is found

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Behaviorist theory

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Personality is constructed by a series of learning experiences that occur through interactions between the individual and their environment Here it is the environment that shapes personality rather than biological factors or inherent psychological drives More interested in external behaviors than internal behaviors believes that personality IS behavior Per

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Trait theory vs psychoanalytic theory

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can be compared to two different ways of studying a machine Trait theory is only interested in the ability to predict what the machine will do, whereas the psychoanalytic perspective is interested in the hidden internal workings of the machine and how they produce the machine’s function

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Social cognitive theory

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Focuses on leaning experiences and observable behaviors like the behaviorist theory It differs in that it considers the contributions of an individual’s mental life and personal choices Explores how thought and emotion affect both the learning process and the experiences and surrounding that people choose for themselves Includes the process of observational learning A key concept in this theory is reciprocal causation

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Observational learning

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people learn from the experiences of others and apply the lessons of previous experiences to new situations

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Reciprocal causation

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states that behavior, personal factors , and the environment continually interact and influence each other

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Humanistic theory

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Says that people continually seek experiences that make them better, more fulfilled individuals This theory points to the role of an individual in shaping his or her own personality According to this theory, conscious decisions, rather than stable, uncontrollable traits or unconscious impulses, make people who they are

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Carl Rogers

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An influential humanistic psychologist according to him, an individual has a healthy personality when his or her actual self, ideal self, and perceived self (self-concept) overlap.

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The situational approach to explaining behavior

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The concept of enduring personality traits is fatally flawed because of the variations in behavior that occur across different situations This situational approach shifts the focus from internal, stable traits to external, changing circumstances. Still allows for stability in personality because people behave according to their interpretations of situations Think of this approach as an “if-then” theory states that a personality trait is not a useful construct for understanding personality or predicting an individual’s behavior due to variability across situations do not take the existence of personality traits

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Identity

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Can be thought of as a person’s view of who they are in terms of both internal factors, including personality traits, and social or external factors, like group membership. Differs from personality by placing a larger emphasis on the individual’s own perception of self. Allows individuals to see themselves as constant, but it also maintains enough flexibility to change in response to experience, such as a career change Although identity is an internal concept, a person’s identity includes a model of how he or she generally behaves in social settings. Identity can be understood best by examining two components: the personal and the social.

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Self-concept

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The most personal aspect of identity It is the knowledge of one-self as a person both separate from other people and constant throughout changing situations. It can be thought of as a person’s view of his or her own personality Is developed as refined through interactions with others Once a person has a well-developed self-concept, he or she will intentionally act in ways that uphold that self-concept and may have a strong emotional response to circumstances that threaten its validity.

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Social identity

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The perception of oneself as a member of certain social groups involves a cognitive and emotional component Cognitive component is the categorization of oneself into a certain group Emotional component comes from an individual’s emotional attachment to the groups with which they identify Social identity is a flexible concept While it remains a fairly stable part of the self, it also allows for variation across different social contexts and levels of society

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Different types of identities

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race/ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, and class (demographics)

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Socialization

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the process by which developing individuals learn the values, norms, and appropriate behaviors of their society, continuing throughout the lifespan The way in which children learn the culture into which they have been born Culture is the guiding force for socialization

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Influence of individuals

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Involved in both socialization and identity formation

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Role-taking

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adopting the role of another person, either by imitating behaviors associated with specific social roles or by taking the other person’s point of view in social interaction

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Social comparison

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evaluating oneself by contrast with others, facilitates the development of a distinct sense of self in terms of similarity with and difference from other people

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Reference group

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A group that provides him or her with a model for appropriate actions, values, and worldviews People tend to choose reference groups that align with their own identities, and the groups then exert their own influence on the individual’s identity

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Self-esteem

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A person’s overall value judgment of him or her self. High self-esteem -> positive self-concept

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Self-efficacy

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the feeling of being able to carry out an action successfully affects the types of experiences that people choose and how well they perform also implicated in the social cognitive theory of personality since it is a personal characteristic that affects the behaviors and interactions with the environment that shape personality

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Locus of control

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a person’s belief about the extent to which internal or external factors play a role in shaping his or her life

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