Self Concept ( Image of who you are)

Growing in self awareness.

- Consist of your strengths,
weaknesses your abilities and - Ask yourself about yourself.
limitations and your aspirations - Listen to others.
and worldview - Actively seek information
about yourself.
- See your different selves.

Develop from 4 sources

-other’s image
Growing in self awareness (cont)
-social comparisons (comparing yourself
with others) Perception and the self in - Increase your open self (reveal
Interpersonal Communication yourself to others)
-self- evalutions (based on what you do,
your own behaviour, interpret and
evaluate it)

Self esteem
Self awareness (which you know yourself) - Measure of how valuable you think you
Self awareness (cont) are.
- High self esteem, highly of yourself.
- The open self (you behaviours, feelings, - Low self esteem, viem yourself negatively.
desire, motivations and idea) - Attack Self-Destructive Beliefs
- The blind self (all the things about you that * Ideas you have about yourself that are
others know but of which you’re ignorant. unproductive.
- The hidden self (you know of yourself and * These belief set unrealistically high
of others that you keep secret. standards and therefore almost always
- The unknown self (truths about yourself) end with failure.
 Self Esteem
Seek Out Nourishing People.
- Avoid noxious people as they like to
find fault and critize people.
- Nourishing people are positive and
optimistic.
Work on projects that will result in
success.
- Select project that will result in
success as it will build your self-
esteem.
Remind yourself of your success.
- Some people have a tendency to
focus on and to exaggerate their
failures, their missed opportunities
and their social mistakes.
Perception and the self in
Interpersonal
Communications.
Self Esteem (cont)
- Secure affirmation ( refers to
positive statement about
yourself)
Interpersonal
Perception Stages
Stage One: Stimulation.
- Your sense organs are
stimulated (see a friend etc)
- Selective attention (attend to
those things that you anticipate
with fulfil your needs or will prove
enjoyable.
- Selective exposure ( expose
yourself to people)
 Stage Two: Organization

- Organization by rules Stage Three: Interpretation-

Evaluation
One frequently used rule is that of
promixity or physical closeness. - Greatly influenced by your
Psysically close to each other are experiences, needs, wants,
perceived as a unit. Interpersonal Perception values, etc.
Another rule is similarity things that are Stages (cont) - Will be influenced by your
physically similar. rules, schemata, scripts and
The rule of contrast is the opposite of even gender
similarity; (people or messages).

Stage Four: Memory

Stage Two: Organization (cont)
- All the perceptions and interpretation-
Organization by Schemata evaluation are put into memory.
- May ultimately retrieve at some later
- Is a mental template that help you organize the time
millions of items of information you come into
contact with every day.
Organization by Scripts
- An organized body of information about some
action, event or procedure.

Stage Five: Recall

- Involves accessing the

information you have stored
in memory.
Impression formation (person perception)
consists of a variety of processes that you go
through in forming an impression of another
person.
Impression formation processes includes:
- Self-fulfilling Prophecy
- Implicit Personality Theory
- Perceptual accentuation
- Primacy-recency
- Consistency
- Attribution of control
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
(cont.)
four basic steps:
- You make prediction or formulate a belief
about a person or a situation.
- You act toward that person or situation as if
that prediction or belief were true.
- Because you act as if the belief were true, it
becomes true
- You observe your effect on the person or the
resulting situation and what you see
strengthens your beliefs.
Impression Formation Process
(cont)
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy is a prediction
that comes true because you act on it
as if it were true.
- make predictions about yourself and
fulfill them.
Impression Formation - short-circuit critical thinking and
Process influence others’ behavior (or your
own).
Implicit Personality Theory refers
- person has a subconscious or implicit theory.
- Characteristics of an individual go with other
characteristics.
- Halo effect – if you believe a person has some
positive qualities, your are likely to infer that
she or he also possesses other positive
qualities.
- Horns effect (reverse halo) – if you know a
person possesses several negative qualities,
you are more likely to infer that the person also
has other negative qualities.
- Perceptual Accentuation leads
you to see what you expect or
want to see.
- magnify or accentuate what will Consistency refers to the tendency to
satisfy your needs and desires. maintain balance among perceptions or
- lead you to perceive what you attitudes.
need or want to perceive rather
than what is really there.
- fail to perceive what you don’t Impression Formation Process
want to perceive. (cont)

Attribution of Control

- Primacy-Recency refers if what - Another way in which we form

comes first exerts the most influence, impressions
you have a primacy effect, and if what - Might likely be sympathetic to
comes last (or most recently). not in control situation
- Once that schema is formed, we are - You frequently ask if they were
likely to resist information that in control of the behavior
contradicts it.