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Chapter 6 Vocabulary
The Self in a Social World
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a set of beliefs & feelings about something. Examples would include: stereotypes, prejudices, & generalizations | schema |
| a schema about how people in certain roles (i.e. boss, wife, teacher) are expected to behave | role schema |
| a schema about how a particular individual is expected to behave | person schema |
| the set of beliefs, feelings, & generalizations that we have about ourselves | self-schemas |
| the totality of our impressions, thoughts, & feelings; such that we have a conscious, continuous sense of being in the world | self |
| one's psychological sense of one's physical being (i.e. one's height, weight, hair color, race, & physical skills) | physical self |
| the composite of the social roles one plays (i.e. suitor, student, worker, husband, wife, mother, father, citizen, leader, follower, etc.) Roles & masks helps one adjust to the requirements of one's social situation | social self |
| one's private, continuous, sense of being oneself in the world | personal self |
| standards for behavior. a system of beliefs from which one derives standards for behavior | ethics |
| one's perception of oneself, including one's traits & an evaluation of these traits. this includes one's self-esteem & one's ideal self | self-concept |
| self-approval. one'e self respect or favorable opinions of oneself | self-esteem |
| one's perception of what one ought to be & do. also called self-ideal | ideal self |
| a period of serious self examination & self-questioning of one's values & direction in life | identity crisis |
| the identity status that describes individuals who have resolved an identity crisis & committed to a relatively stable set of beliefs or a course of action | identity achievement |
| the identity status that describes individuals who have adopted a commitment to a set of beliefs or a course of action without undergoing an identity crisis | identity foreclosure |
| the identity status that describes individuals who are in the throes of an identity crisis; an intense examinations of alternatives | identity moratorium |
| the identity status that describes individuals who have neither arrived at a commitment as to who they are & what they stand for nor experienced a crisis | identity diffusion |
| the process by which we form understandings of others in our social environment, based on observations of how others act & information we receive | social perception |
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