Self Concept
Culture
Guidelines for Improving Self Concept
Scenario
It's All Relative
100
Our perception of how others view us is called _____.
What is Reflected Appraisal?
100
The word "white" wasn't used to describe race or identity in the United States until these people arrived on the east coast.
What are Europeans?
100
Because the self is this continuous action, it cannot be changed in a moment of decision.
What is a process?
100
"My brother and I are identical twins. We worked really hard to distinguish ourselves...but some of our peers in high school addressed both of us as 'twin.' The way they defined us disconfirmed our sense of ourselves as individuals."
What is direct definition?
100
This is the process of assessing ourselves in relation to others to form judgments of our own talents, abilities, qualities, and so forth.
What is Social Comparison?
200
This occurs when we internalize others' expectations or judgments about us and then behave in ways that are consistent with those expectations and judgments.
What are Self-Fulfilling Prophecies?
200
Broadly held social views are described by Mead as the perspectives of this group.
What is the generalized other?
200
One way to get information about yourself necessary for improvement is by engaging in this revealing practice.
What is self-disclosure?
200
"I don't fit with most of the folks here. That hits me in the face every day. I walk across campus and see girls wearing shoes that cost more than all four pairs I own. I hear students talking about restaurants and trips that I can't afford. Last week, I heard a guy complaining about being too broke to get a CD Player for his car. I don't own a car. I don't know how to relate to these people who have so much money. I do know they see the world differently than I do."
What is socioeconomic class?
200
This is where the individual stops and the rest of the world begins.
What is Ego Boundaries?
300
These define our roles, how we are to play them, and the basic elements in the plots of our lives.
What are Identity Scripts?
300
This term refers to an irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals.
What is homophobia?
300
This term describes a crippling kind of self-talk that convinces ourselves there is no point in trying to change.
What is self-sabotage?
300
"When I was little my father was an alcoholic, but I didn't know that then. All I knew was that sometimes he loved me and played with me, and sometimes he yelled at me for no reason. Once he told me I was his sunshine, but later that same night he told me he wished I'd never been born. Even though now I understand the alcohol made him act that way, it's still hard to feel okay about my childhood." This is an example of a(n) _____ attachment style.
What is anxious/ambivalent?
300
This is one of the first ways children learn to identify themselves.
What is Gender?
400
"You are a very smart girl," Mary tells her daughter. Mary's statement is an example of _____.
What is a Direct Definition?
400
Socioeconomic class influences where we place our focus in this structure of needs.
What is Maslow's hierarchy?
400
In 1969, two men created this model for the types of knowledge that affect self development. Hint: Their first names were Joseph and Harry.
What is the Johari Window model?
400
Lucy observes that on the most recent test in her engineering class, only two students out of 60 earned higher scores than she did. She concludes that she is smarter than most of the others in class, at least in the subject of engineering. This is an example of ______.
What is social comparison?
400
Caregivers who are disinterested, rejecting of and unavailable to children demonstrate this attachment style.
What is Dismissive?
500
Patterns of care-giving that teach us who we and others are and how to approach relationships are known as _____.
What are Attachment Styles?
500
Western cultures have strong gender prescriptions. Girls and women are expected to be (blank), (blank), (blank); whereas boys and men are supposed to be (blank), (blank), (blank).
What are caring, supportive of others, cooperative; independent, self-assertive, and competitive?
500
According to psychiatrist Judith Orloff, people are not very self-compassionate because we often equate the quality to this more egotistic one, also beginning with "self-".
What is self-indulgence?
500
"In South Africa, where I was born, I learned that I was not important. Most daughters learn this. My name is Annika, which means 'between happiness and sadness'. The happiness is because a child was born. The sadness is because I am a girl, not a boy. I am struggling now to see myself as worthy." Annika is likely to develop a(n) _____ attachment style.
What is dismissive?
500
This style is facilitated when the caregiver responds in a consistently attentive and loving way to the child.
What is a secure attachment style?
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