Self 20oct

SELF
SELF
• Self: How we define ourselves… It is
very complex. It can be influenced
by internal characteristics, like self-
esteem and our thoughts about
ourselves, but it can also be
influenced by external appearances,
such as our interactions by others.
SELF
• Sense of self is defined as the way
a person thinks about and views his
or her traits, beliefs, and purpose
within the world.
SELF
• Rogers:
Theory of personality, which
focuses on a self-concept, or a
person's perceptions and beliefs
about himself/herself.
self-worth,
self-image
ideal self.
SELF
• Self-esteem (self-worth) is the set
of beliefs we hold about ourselves.
• Self-image is how we see ourselves,
such as whether we see ourselves as
being attractive or unattractive.
• Ideal self is the person we would
like to be.
SELF
• Real Self (Self image): Who we
actually are. How we think, feel,
look, and act.
SELF
• Ideal Self is how we want to be. It
is an idealized image that we have
developed over time, based on what
we have learned and experienced.
The ideal self could include
components of what our parents
have taught us, what we admire in
others, what our society
promotes,
and what we think is in our best
SELF
• Possible Selves represent
individuals' ideas of what they might
become, what they would like to
become, and what they are afraid of
becoming, and thus provide a
conceptual link between cognition
and motivation.
SELF
• Self is a social construct rather
than being an objective fact.
SOCIAL COMPARISON
THEORY
• Social comparison theory
(Festinger, 1954) states that
individuals determine their own
social and personal worth based on
how they stack up against others.
SOCIAL COMPARISON
THEORY
• It is the proposition that people
evaluate their abilities and attitudes
in relation to those of others in a
process that plays a significant role
in self-image and subjective well-
being.
SOCIAL COMPARISON
THEORY
• There are essentially two types of
comparisons that people make: (1)
upward comparisons, or comparing
ourselves to others who are better
than we are, and (2) downward
comparisons, or comparing ourselves
to those who are not as proficient as
we are at a given task.
SCHEMAS
• A schema is a mental concept that
informs a person about what to
expect from a variety of
experiences and situations.
SCHEMAS
• Role schemas help people
understand the social context with
which he or she is engaged and
adjust accordingly to the demands
of the situation.
• Self-schemas are expectations
about how we should act in different
situations.
SCHEMAS
• Event Schemas
• Schemas related to personality
traits
SCHEMAS
• A script is a very specific schema
for a particular order of expected
events in a particular context.
GENDER
• Gender schemas are used to
organize and direct the child's
behavior based on his or her
society's gender norms and
expectations related to the child's
gender (Bem, 1981).
• Clothing
• Social learning is important.
Do the schemas change
SCHEMAS
• Accommodation: Changing our
existing schema new info
• Assimilation: Including new info to
the existing schema.
SELF-ESTEEM
• Self-esteem is how we feel about
ourselves.
SELF-ESTEEM
SOCIAL IDENTITY
THEORY
• Social identity theory discusses the
idea of a person’s sense of belonging
based on the group they are in
(Tajfel & Turner, 1979).
TERROR MANAGEMENT
THEORY
• Terror management theory posits
that human awareness of the
inevitability of death exerts a
profound influence on diverse
aspects of human thought, emotion,
motivation, behaviour and self-
esteem.
SELF-PERCEPTION
THEORY
• Self-perception theory states that
when our attitudes and feelings are
uncertain or ambiguous, we infer
these states by observing our
behaviour and the situation in which
it occurs.
• Forced facial expressions might
influence how we feel.
IMPRESSION
MANAGEMENT
• When we work to make others see us
in a particular light, it is called
impression management. Impression
management can happen consciously
or subconsciously. There are many
types of impression management.
• ingratiation,
• self-handicapping,
• self-monitoring.
INGRATIATION
• Ingratiation: Trying to get others
to like us through flattery.
SELF-HANDICAPPING
• Self-handicapping refers to actions
or statements we make that allow us
to avoid effort or responsibility for
potential failures that could damage
our self-esteem.
PROCRASTINATION
• Procrastination is defined as the act
of putting things off and consists of
avoiding tasks that need to be
finished, usually until right before
time is up or the deadline is coming.
PLANNING FALLACY
• The planning fallacy describes our
tendency to underestimate the
amount of time it will take to
complete a task, as well as the costs
and risks associated with that task—
even if it contradicts our
experiences.
PLANNING FALLACY
SELF-MONITORING
• Self-monitoring: Self-monitoring is
a concept that denotes the way
people monitor (or observe) and
manage (or regulate) themselves in a
social setting given a variety of
visual, vocal and verbal cues.
• HSM
• LSM
SELF-MONITORING
• A low self-monitor who has certain
religious beliefs will be more likely
than a high self-monitor to express
their actual beliefs across
situations.
• A high self-monitor may be the
biggest griever at a funeral even if
they don't feel all that sad.
• What is self determination theory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3
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• Self Handicapping:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x
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• Procrastination:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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