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PSY 236 Exam 3 Chapter 17
Personality Psychology
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
12/13/2011

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I and Me
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William James' two parts of the Self.
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The me
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an object that can be observed and described; statements about the self
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The I
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the somewhat mysterious entity that does the observing and describing; experiences life and makes decisions
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Declarative Self
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An individual's (conscious) opinions about his or her own personality traits and other relevant attributes.
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Self-Esteem
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Your overall opinion about whether you are good or bad, worthy or unworthy, or somewhere in-between.
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Self-Schema
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All of one's ideas about the self, organized into a coherent system.
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Self-Efficacy
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Our opinions about our capabilities set the limits of what we will attempt.
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Self-Discrepancy
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You have not one, but three kinds of self-relevant schemas, and their interaction determines how you feel about life.
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Three schemas associated with Self-Discrepancy
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Actual self, Ideal self, and Ought self
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Actual Self
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What you think you're really like
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Ideal self
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Your view of what you could be at your best.
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Ought self
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Your view of what you should -- as opposed to what you would like -- to be
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Procedural Self
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What a person knows, but cannot really talk about; sometimes called "knowing how". - patterns of behavior that are characteristic of an individual
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Implicit Self
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self-relevant behavioral patterns that are not readily accessible to consciousness
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Conscious self-consciousness
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awareness of who one is and what one is doing
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Unconscious self-consciousness
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people may process information as relevant to themselves
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Relational self-schema
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self-knowledge based on past experiences that directs how we relate to the important people in our lives
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