Study Question #2
: Use what you learned in class and from the text to explain what the
self-concept is and to describe how the processes below shape it’s content: information
processing, role taking and social comparison.
I) Self-concept
[define].
A) This main
theory we all have about ourselves is constructed through individual experience and
evolves over time with new experiences.
However, not every experience is internalized into
the self-concept.
During our lives we chose many times over which experiences to be
representative of ourselves as a whole.
B) Personal Narrative
– the story people constructs
from select experiences in order to explain to they got to be the way they are, which is often
changes, highlighting different experiences, if the people themselves change.
The critical
thing is that we decide which characteristics to embody in ourselves, to form our self-
concept, by choosing experiences that we think representative of ourselves.
These self-
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- Fall '05
- MCCREARY
- Psychology, Thought, representative
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