PSY 103 Lecture 6: Study Soup (Psy ch.6) (1)
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Is an organized collection of beliefs about the self. The self-concept entails your beliefs about your personality. Those things than come to mind when you think about yourself and what you believe to be true about yourself. These beliefs, also called self-schemas, shape social perception are developed from past experience, and are concerned with your personality traits, abilities, physical features, values, goals, and social roles. Are one"s conceptions about the kind of person one might become in the future. According to e. tory higgins (1987), individuals have several organized self-perceptions: Self-discrepancy consists of a mismatch between the self-guides that direct behavior. self-perceptions that make up the actual self, ideal self, and ought self. The differences among one"s actual, ideal, and ought selves influence how one feels about oneself and can create some particular emotional vulnerabilities. When people live up to their personal standards (ideal or ought selves), they experience high self-esteem;
