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self regulations

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the deliberate exertion of control to alter one’s responses(thoughts,emotions and actions

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we have

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a set of standards and a commitment to them culture or individual

the ability to self-motor

the capability to change

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what is the ironic process of mental control ?

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that when we try to supress the thought, we must mononeter it, we have to think about the thought to get rid of it

ex: don’t think about pink cow

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self concept

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the description and evaluation of one-self, including psychological and physical characteristics, qualities, skills, roles and etc

it is made of self-schemas

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self-schema

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are orginezed information about the self in a specific domain

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working self concept

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set of self-aspects that are currently activated by situational cues and strongly influenced thoughts,feelings and actions in the moment

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self-complexity

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how much do individuals have different and relatively independent ways of thinking about themselves

high self - complexity : different selfs- roles are independent

I’m a student and a daughter and worker

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self-concept clarity

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the extent to which one’s self-concept is clearly and consistently defined

confident who you are - not wondering wo u are

I know that im nice

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Individualism as
Types of Social Relations

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individualistic emphasis on people’s autonomy, private fufillment, uniqness

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Collectivism as
Types of Social Relations

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collective emphaisis on interpersonal harmoney,group cohesion, and social duty

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independent self-schema

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bounded,unitary,stable self

behaviour orginize around private thoughts,feeling and emotions

goals to be unique,express self ,realize internal attributes , promotes own goals

others important for social comparison

self-esteem based on ability to express self, validate internal attribute

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interdependable self-chema

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flexibal,variable self

behaviour organized around statues,roles and relationships

goals to occupy one’s proper place,engage in appropriate action,group goals

relationship important for self-definition

self-esteem based on ability to adjust,maintain harmony

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european-americans tend to be

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independent schema - individualistic

ex:im inteligent, im funny

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native americans

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refer themselves as collective, interdependet schema

ex:i need to succeed to help my community

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takeaway

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Native American self-construal both
interdependent and independent
(but uniquely related)!

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what are the 3 levels of our social self?

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personal self

relational self

collective self

a person has all three

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personal self

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self concept: individuated

evaluation: traits,*

frame of reference : interpersonal comparison

social motivation: self interest

ex: I’m beutifull

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relational self

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self concept:roles and relationships

evaluation:roles*

frame of reference:reflection

social motivation:others benefit

ex: I’m a sister

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collective self

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self concept: social identity

evaluation:group prototype

frame of reference: others in the group

social motivation: collective welfare

ex: I’m Brazilian

(nationality,religion,race)

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self-categorization theory

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self-categorization is inheratly variable and highly dependent on contextual shifts in frames of reference/situated goals and motives

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introspection

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looking inward into concious thought,feelings,motivations and intentions

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symbolic interactionism

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people use their understanding of how others view them as the primary basis for knowing and evaluating themselves

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the looking glass self

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others reflect back to us who we are by how they behave toward us

ex:I think I’m funny because my friends laugh at my jokes

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reflect appraisal

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what we think others think about us

I think eduardo think I’m funny (glass) theory so I’m funny

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self-perception thoery

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we look at our past behaviour to make judgment about ourselves

specially when attitudes/memory are week and abigious

ex:I say I’m a good student based on me remembering that i studied yesterday

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instrict motivation

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doing an activity because the person enjoys

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Extrincic motivation

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doing an activity because of expectations of rewards or punishment

ex:money

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over justification effect

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when rewarding leades to lower interets in the activity that was once loved

ex:science for me

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is money a good way to motivate others

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no

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self-esteem

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how positively or negatively we feel about ourselves

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self esteem can be

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global vs specific

trait vs state

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global

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overall evaluation of your whole self

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specific

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how you feel about yourselve in that specific aspect,performance

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trait

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general attitude towards self-esteem

consistant

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state

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feeling about the self that can temporaly increse or decrease in response to changing circumstances,achievement and success

right now

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examples

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global trait: i usually feel good about myself

specific trait: usually I feel good about my appearance

global state: right now I feel bad about myself

specific state : right now I feel bad about how funny I am

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we desire to protect and enhance feelings of self-worth

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frustrtation of these goals > physical distress

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why do we have self-esteem

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-sociometer theory
-self-esteem as an axiety buffer

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sociometer theory

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self-esteem as information about our inclusion in groups

monitor of one’s relational evaluation

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self-esteem as an axiety buffer

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we want to live but we know we will die

we become paralyzed by fear and to solve the issue we create cultuew that includes self-estemm

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defend self-esteem

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-better than avarge effect

-self-serving attributional bias

-theory of social comparison

-self-evaluation maintenance theory

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better the avarage effect

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judging that one is above average on most desirable characteristics

ex:appearance,humor,intallagence

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self - serving attributional bias

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make external attribution for bad behaviour and internal attribution for good things that one does

ex: i got a bad grade in my math quiz is because it was hard , I studied a lot/im intelligent when I got a good grade

it promotes
-good mental health
-not accurate

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theory of social comperacion

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people compare themselves to similar others

especially when we do not know ho we are doing

we compare ourselves to

-Downward social comperacions : individuals who did less well , have weeker abilities / compare to people below u - improve self esteem

-Upward social comperacion: those of a superior person- decrease our self-esteem

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