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PSYC221
Chapter 3 Vocab
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
10/30/2007

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Self Concept

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The sum total of an individual's beliefs about his or her own personal attributes
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Self Schemas
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Beliefs people hold about themselves that guide the processing of self-relevant information
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Affective forecasting
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The process of predicting how one would feel in response to future emotional events
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Self perception theory
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They theory that when internal cues are difficult to interpret, people gain self-insight by observing their own behavior
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Facial Feedback Hypothesis
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The hypothesis that changes in facial expression can lead to corresponding changes in emotion
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Overjustification effect
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The tendency for intrinsic motivation to diminish for activities that have become associated with reward or other extrinsic factors
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Social comparison theory  
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The tehory that people evaluate their own abilities and opinions by comparing themselves to others
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Two factor theory of emotion
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The theory that experience of emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and a cognitive interpretation of that arousal
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Self esteem
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An affective compoenent of the self, consisting of a person's positive and negative self-evalutations
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Self-awareness theory
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The theory that self-focused attention lends peple to notice self-discrepancies, thereby motivation either an escape from self-awareness or a change in behavior.
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Private self-consciousness
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A personality characteristic of individuals who are introspective, often attending to their own inner states
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Public self-consciouness
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A personality charactersitic of individuals who focus on themselves as social objects, as seen by others
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Implicit egotism
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A nonconscious form of self-enhancement
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Self-handicapping
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Behaviors designed to sabotage one's own performance in order to provide a subsequent excuse for failure
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Bask in reflected glory (BIRG)
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Increasing self-esteem by associating with others who are successful
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Downward social comparison
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Defensive tendencies to compare ourselves with others who are worse off than we are
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Self-presentation  
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Strategies people use to shape what others think of them
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Self monitoring
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The tendency to change behavior in response to self-presentation concerns of the situation
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