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| Defined as an organized combination of attributes, motives, values, and behaviors unique to each individual |
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| Relatively enduring - extraversion, dependence etc. |
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| Characteristic adaptations |
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| More situation-specific and changeable ways in which people adapt to their roles and environments |
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| Unique and integrative "life stories" that we construct about our pasts and futures to give ourselves and identity and our lives meaning |
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| Your perceptions, positive or negative, of your unique attributes and traits as a person |
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| Your overall evaluation of your worth as a person, high or low, based on all the positive and negative self-perception |
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| An overall sense of who you are |
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1. Openness to experience
2. Conscientiousness
3. Extraversion
4. Agreeableness
5. Neuroticism |
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| Ability to recognize oneself in a mirror or photograph |
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| Babies classify themselves into social categories based on age, sex, and other visible characteristics, figuring out what is " like me" and what is "not like me" |
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| Early, genetically based tendencies to respoind in predictable ways to events that serve as the building locks of personality |
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| Tendency to be extremely shy, restrained, and distressed in response to unfamiliar people in situations |
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| Tendency to actively and energetically approach new experiences in an emotionally positive way |
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| The tendency to be sad, fearful, easily frustrated, and irritable |
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| The ability to focus and shift attention when desired, control one's behavior and plan a course of action, and regulate or suppress one's emotions |
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| The extent to which the child's temperament is compatible with the demands and expectations of the social world to which she must adapt |
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| Using information about how they compare with other individuals to characterize and evaluate themselves |
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| Big fish - little pond effect |
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| Holding factors such as academic competence equal, a student's academic self-concept tends to be less positive when the average academic achievement level of her classmates is high (small fish in a big pond) than when her classroom or school's average academic achievement level is low (when she is a big fish in a little pond) |
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| A time during the high school and college years when they are relatively free of responsibilities and can experiment with different roles to find themselves |
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| No crisis and no commitment |
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| Commitment without crisis |
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| Identity achievement status |
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| Crisis resolved and commitment made |
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| A sense of personal identification with an ethnic group and its values and cultural traditions |
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| Individuals define themselves primarily as individiuals and put their own goals ahead of their social group's goals |
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| People define themselves in terms of group memberships and give group goals higher priority than personal goals |
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| 8 Stages of Psychosocial development - Erik Erikson page 382 |
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| Reflection on unresolved conflicts of the past to come to terms with themselves, find new meaning and coherence in their lives, and prepare for death |
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| A person questions his life structure and raises unsettling issues about where he has been and where he is heading |
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| Selective optimization with compensation (SOC) |
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| Older people can best cope with aging, and people in general can best cope with the challenges of living through SOC |
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| Holds that aging adults will find their lives satisfying to the xtent that they can maintain their previous lifestyles and activity levels, either by continuing old activities or by finding substitutes |
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| Successful aging involves a withdrawal of the aging individual from society that is satisfying to both |
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