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The Self in a Social World: An Outline

1. The sense of self is at the center of each person's world. Beliefs about the self that organize and guide the self are known as self-schemas.

2. Being self-conscious is part of the sense of self. The "illusion of transparency" is the tendency to assume that others can tell what a person is feeling or thinking.

3. Possible selves include all the visions people have both of what they want to be and what they fear of becoming.

4. Self-esteem is better when more generalized than when applied to particular traits or abilities.

1. In role-playing, a pretended persona becomes reality as that person becomes more comfortable "playing" that part.

2. Social identity refers to race, religion, and other societal qualifiers and implies a definition of what that person is not, such as "us" vs. "them."

3. Comparison of self to others defines whether a person is rich or poor, etc., leading to an increase or decrease in self-esteem.

4. Successes and failures often help determine the perception of self-worth. Hard-earned successes develop a higher self-esteem, while too many failures can lead to a low self-esteem.

5. People tend to use others as a mirror of perceiving the self. This is known as "The looking glass self."

The surrounding culture, whether individualistic or collective, influences the values placed on different personality traits.

1. Individualistic cultures value self-reliance.

2. Collective cultures value reliance on the group.

Self-knowledge is often wrong about influences or what is felt or done. The more subtle the cause, the less likely that it will be accurately determined to be the cause.

Self-efficacy, how competent someone feels doing something, predicts worker productivity.

Locus of control is the extent to which people perceive outcomes as internally controllable or externally controllable

Learned helplessness vs. Self-Determination

1. Learned helplessness is the resignat...

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