HS102 Chapter 3

The relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself.

Involves evaluations of self-worth.

Characteristic ways that you think and behave across a variety of situations.

The fact that each of us develops a self-concept that reflects the way we believe others see us.

People whose opinions we especially value.

Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare with others.

Against which we compare ourselves play an important role in shaping our view of ourselves.

Tendency to seek and attend to information that conforms to an existing self-concept

Occurs when a person's expectations of an event, and his or her subsequent behavior based on those expectations, make the event more likely to occur than would otherwise have been true.