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Social Self
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Self concept | the sum total of an individuals beliefs about his or her own personal attributes |
| Self esteem | an effective component of the self, consisting of a persons positive and negative self-evaluations |
| overjustification effect | the tendency for intrinsic motivation to diminsh for activities that have become associated with reward or other extrinsic facotrs. |
| Private self-consciousness | a personality characteristic of individuals who are introspective, often attending to their own inner states |
| public slef-consciousness | a personality characteristic of individuals who focus on themselves as social objects, as seen by others |
| self awareness theory | the theory that self-focused attention leads people to notice self-discrepancies, therby motivating either an escape from self-awareness or a change in behaviour |
| Self- handicapping | behaviours designed to sabotage ones own performance in order to provide a subsequent excuse for failure |
| self-monitoring | the tendency to change behaviour in response to the self-presentation concerns of the situation |
| self-perception theory | the theory that when internal cues are difficult to interpret, people gain self-insight by observing their own behaviour |
| self-presentation | strategies people use to shape what others think of them |
| self-schema | a belief people hold about themselves that guides the processing of self-relevant information |
| socail comparison theory | the theory that people evaluate their own abilities and opinions by comparing themselves to others |
| two-factor theory of emotion | the theory that the experience of emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive interpretation of that arousal |
| affective forecasting | the process of predicting how one would feel in response to future emotional events |
| Bask in reflected glory (BIRG) | to increase self-esteem by associating with others who are successful |
| downward social comparison | the defensive tendency to compare ourselves with others who are worse off that we are |
| facial feedback hypothesis | the hypothesis that changes in facial expression can lead to corresponding changes in emotion |
| implicit egotism | a nonconscious form of self-enhancement |
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