COM 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Missy Elliott
30 Oct 2016
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A cognitive process through which we interpret our experiences and come to our own unique understandings of the world and our place in it. Self concepts are compromised of different levels of perception: 2. how we believe other perceive us. Self concept- a set of relatively stable perceptions that each of us holds about ourselves. Re ected appraisals- who we develop an image of ourselves and the way we think others view is. Signi cant people like family members, friends, teachers and persons who words have had major in uence over our self concept. Our self concepts having bearing on our communications bc we expect certain outcomes, an activity we think we excel in and then show con dence in ends up well because we have faith in ourselves. Occurs when a person"s expectation of an outcome and subsequent behavior, makes the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise have been true.
