HDF 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Attention Seeking, Cyberbullying, Relational Aggression
7 Dec 2016
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Begin to evaluate themselves in a particular areas. I"m good in english but i"m not good at math . Self-concept also develops during this time period through social comparison. Downward social comparison - compare self to others who are less successful than you in a particular task. Global self-esteem - how you feel about yourself overall. Domain-specific self-esteem - how you feel about yourself in a particular area. More confident in ability to get things done. Confident about one"s ability to learn new things. Self-efficacy - belief in one"s ability to complete a task/goal successfully. Enactive attainments - evaluating abilities based on past experiences. Verbal persuasion - being encouraged by significant others to accomplish a task. Physical state - judge self on ability to perform a task well. Self-fulfilling prophecy - limiting one"s ability due to fear of failure. Illusion of incompetence - individual who performs well on tasks but expects to perform below expectations.
