| A | B |
|---|
| A system of perspectives with multiple dimensions, that continuously evolves and changes. | Self |
| Seeing ourselves through the eyes of others. | Reflected appraisals |
| Specific people who are significant to us, whose views shape our self-concept | Particular others |
| Acting in ways that bring about the expectations or judgments of others, or even of ourselves | Self-fulfilling prophecy |
| You're not sure about your drawing skills. Then you have a teacher who exclaims, "My, what a great little artist you are!" After that, you tell everyone, "I'm a great artist!" | Reflected appraisal |
| You think you draw pretty well. Then you get a teacher who looks at our work, and exclaims, "My goodness, you can't draw at all!" After that, you don't want to draw any more, because you think you're no good. | Self-fulfilling prophecy |
| The views of society "as a whole." | Generalized Other |
| Definitions of who a person is and how one should live; often in the form of a saying. | Identity script |
| "Big boys don't cry." | Direct definition |
| "The early bird catches the worm!" | Identity script |
| The emotional bond between a child and the mother that begins as early as an infant's first year of life. | Attachment style |
| Attachment style that is consistently loving and attentive, producing adult attitudes of positive self-worth and a positive view of others. | Secure |
| Attachment style that is consistently cold, negative, rejecting or even abusive, producing adult attitude that the self is OK, but that others are not to be trusted or loved. | Dismissive |
| Attachment style that is alternately loving and accepting, and cold and rejecting. | Anxious-ambivalent |
| People who make us feel good about ourselves | Uppers |
| People who tend to make us feel down about ourselves | Downers |
| An extreme form of people who make us feel bad about ourselves, those who actually attack our self-concepts | Vultures |
| "Reflect critically on social perspectives" means that we shouldn't automatically accept the views of: | Generalized Other |
| "I'm stupid, I'm stupid, I'm stupid!" is an example of: | Self-sabotage |
| The process of gauging our own behavior or performance against that of other people | Social comparison |
