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| your understanding of who you are |
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| self as distinct from world, when they recognize themselves in the mirror |
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| identify with own age/sex, then with own family, mother/daughter |
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| up to age 12, based on talents, skills and abilities |
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| social comparison and awareness of private self (keeping things to themselves, lying) |
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| perspective talking- other people may be viewing them objectively- objective awareness (start of social identity) |
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| Shyness: Chronic Objective Awareness |
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being nervous in different social settings
high social anxiety
worry about things in the now and in the future |
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discomfort/distress in interactions or in anticipation of them, afraid people are going to judge them-negative attention
avoid situations that make them uncomfortable eg. public speaking |
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| Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia) |
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significant fear in one or more social/performance situations, the fear is of social humiliation/embarrassment
prone to avoidance
serious enough that it interferes with one or more areas of their lives
person views fear as excessive |
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| Treating Social Anxiety Disorder |
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cognitive-behaviour therapy
- challenge thought distortions
-exposure to fearful situations in small doses |
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| Self-concept: self-schemata |
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cognitive representation of the elf-concept (key in social interaction)
- how/when we interact with people, and pay attention to |
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| schema for future selves (inspiration for future behaviour) |
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| how we want to be in the future-may be unrealistic |
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| how others want us to be in the future |
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standards that one uses to organize information and motivate appropriate behaviour
disconnect between ideal, ought and actual selves |
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childhood expectations, behaviours applauded/discouraged-right and wrong
later childhood-social comparison, internal standards-what we deem as good |
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| Criticism: failure feedback |
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following failure feedback
- low-self esteem: poorer performance and give up
-high self-esteem: focus on success in other ares, work harder next time |
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| Self-esteem: protecting vs enhancing self |
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high self-esteem: enhance self-concept via risk-taking and striving for success
low self-esteem: protect self-concept by avoiding failure |
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| don't think they're gonna make it, not as big of a blow to self-esteem if they don't make it, setting oneself up for failure |
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| don't practice, so they have an excuse to justify failure |
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magnitude of short-term fluctuations on self-esteem (low-hi)
due to vulnerability of one's self-worth during daily events |
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| Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) |
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| pre-occupation with imagined deficit in appearance, they think they ugly |
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how we present ourselves to other people
continuity- stability in who you are
contrast- aspects of identity that make you different |
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| anxiety about defining one's individuality and social reputation (2 forms of identity crisis: deficit/conflict) |
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| when identity is not adequately formed can lead to vulnerabilities i.e. cults |
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| incompatibility between 2 or more aspects of one's personality eg. chinese-americans |
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| the evaluation of oneself or one's performance in terms of comparison with a reference group |
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| the realization that there is a hidden side to the self, a side that includes private attributes such as thoughts, feelings and desires |
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| seeing yourself as an object of others attention |
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| compartmentalizing the self- we have many roles/aspects to self-concept |
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