self-identity and group identity

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self concept and self identity

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is broadly defined as the sum of an individual’s knowledge and understanding of his or herself

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self-consciousness

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is awareness of one’s self

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self-schemas

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the beliefs an individual has that defines him or herself

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personal identity

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consists of ones own sense of personal attributes

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social identity

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consists of social definitions of who you are these can include race, religion, gender, occupation

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self-reference effect

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is the ability to better remember things that are relevant to oneself

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Carl rogers humanistic perspective to understanding personality

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it is composed of ideal self and real self

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ideal self

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is constructed out of your life experiences, societal expectations, and things you admire about role models

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incongruity

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when the real self falls short of the ideal self

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self-efficacy

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is a belief in one’s own competence and effectiveness it’s how capable we believe we are of doing things

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self-esteem

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is one’s overall self-evaluation of one’s self worth

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vygotskys sociocultural development babies

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elementary mental functions of attention, sensation, perception and memory

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vygotskys believed the learning of a child

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is done by the parent or teacher and modeling what the parent or teacher is doing. (mentor)

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having a more knowledgable other is necessary for

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a childs sociocultural development according to vygotsky

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zone of proximal development

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is the link between what we cannot do and what we can do. this is where a child is able to develop and expand learning.

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vygotsky language

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language develops from social interactions and later speech starts to become inner speach

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george herbert mead being a child

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children think that they are the center of their world

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george herbert mead prepatory stage

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imitation stage

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george herbert mead play stage

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kids play as other people. now they are focused on role taking. Start to become

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george herbert mead game stage

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develop generalized other and multiple roles in society

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Me

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is the social self ex: people go from high school to college

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I

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the response to the me ex: our responses to what society thinks

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our actual self george herbert mead

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is a balance between the I and the Me

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Charles cooley looking glass self

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the view of ourselves come from direct reflection and how others view us
1. we imagine how people perceive us
2. what do others think of me
3. we revise how we think about ourselves
we develop our self perception on how people may think about us

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fundamental attribution error

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says that we may under recognize the extent of external factors in a situation

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fundamental attribution error more often occurs in

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western individualistic cultures

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actor-observer bias

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states that we attribute external factors more in situations but when considering other people they are simply actors in causing their own problems

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individualistic cultures tend to overattribute

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internal factors and failure to external factors

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self-serving bias

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success to our own internal factors and if we fail it is more likely due to external factors

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collectivist society tend to

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factors for success are more likely external while they internalize failures

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just-world hypothesis

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noble acts are always rewarded while evil acts are always punished. ex: you got what you deserve

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just-world hypothesis helps people to

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goal driven behavior and helps rationalize fortune and misfortune

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ethnocentric

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our culture is superior

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cultural relativism

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there is no absolute right or wrong but we have different cultures who are valid and equal

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in group favoritism

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we have favoritism for people in our in group

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out group

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we are neutral towards them

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out group derogation

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we are mean to the outgroup

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group polarization

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decision making machine of the group makes decisions that are more extreme