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1. The composite of your self-awareness, self-concept, and self-esteem. _______
2. A component of self that refers to your ability to perceive yourself as a unique person and to
reflect upon your own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. ______
3. The process of observing and assigning meaning to others’ behaviors by comparing them against
your own. _______
4. A type of self-awareness that focuses on evaluating and improving your communication. _______
5. The beliefs, attitudes, and values you have about yourself. ______
6. The idea that you are more likely to choose friends who provide support for your self-concept.
_______
7. The tendency to act in ways that ensure interactions occur as you believed and predicted they
would. ______
8. The overall evaluation of your self. _______
9. How you assess and compare your ideal self and ought self. _______
10. An established, coherent set of beliefs, attitudes, values, and practices shared by a large group of
people. ______
11. A culture that values personal objectives over group or societal goals. ______
12. A culture that values the group or society over individual goals. _______
13. The composite of social, psychological, and cultural characteristics that characterize people as
being male or female. _______
14. Your public self. _______
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15. A public self designed to hide your private self. _______
16. Feelings of shame, humiliation, and sadness. _______
17. The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information from your senses. _______
18. The tendency to dismiss the significance of negative behavior based on your positive Gestalt.
_______
19. The phase of the perception process where you tailor information and stimuli into coherent,
meaningful patterns. _______
20. The process of assigning meaning to information you have selected. _______
21. Explanations of behavior based on internal and external factors. _______
22. The human tendency to think others’ behavior is caused by internal rather than external or
environmental causes. _______
23. The tendency to assign external causes for your own individual behavior. _______
24. A method of forming impressions by categorizing people into social groups and evaluating them
based on information you have of that group. _______
25. A primary method for testing your impressions in order to avoid errors in judgment. _______
26. A method of communicating more competently that involves perspective-taking and empathic
concern. _______
27. A tendency to take credit for a success by making an internal attribution. _______
28. Mental images of who people are and how you feel about them. _______
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29. A general impression of someone that is positive or negative. _______
30. (missing definition for this term)
31. The tendency to negatively interpret the behavior of people for whom you’ve formed
negative Gestalts. _______
32. Analyzing the positive and negative things you learn about someone to calculate an
overall impression, then updating this impression as you learn new information. _______
33. Those who possess a strong sense of gendered self-identity (male/female) that doesn’t
correspond to the biological sex they were born with. _______
34. Our beliefs about whether empathy is something that can be developed and controlled. _______
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