Per Dev

• Self-concept


  Your perception of yourself, how you define and understand yourself as a multi-dimensional (physical, spiritual, emotional, social, and moral) human being
• Self-esteem


  A positive or negative self-evaluation of the self-concept
• Self-worth


  How much you value yourself
• Self-efficacy


  Your belief and confidence that you can accomplish tasks and control your environment
• Self-complexity


  The different ways in which you think about yourself
• Self-concept is primarily a product of your relationships with others
• Self-awareness


  The ability to know yourself extensively, not just regarding traits and characteristics, but also knowing your inner state and how you think
• Self-awareness


  • It is a deeper understanding of your emotions, belief systems, and patterns in behavior and thought that should allow us to effectively redirect negative traits into positive ones if needed
  • To be self-aware, you must attempt to be non-judgmental and unbiased in assessing or understanding yourself
• Internal self-awareness


  Refers to clearly seeing your inner self–your personalities, values, desires, reactions, and impact on other people
• External self-awareness


  Involves understanding how others see you
• Types of individuals based on internal and external self-awareness

  • Introspectors (high internal, low external)
  • Aware (high internal, high external)
  • Seekers (low internal, low external)
  • Pleasers (low internal, high external)
• Mindfulness


  Being "present" and aware with one's thoughts, feelings, and actions
• Individual differences


  The differences and similarities among people in a psychological way
• No two persons are born exactly alike, but each differs from the other in natural endowments, one being suited for one occupation and the other for another
• Demographics


  The statistical characteristics of people like age, gender, religion or socioeconomic status
• Dual differences


  Differences and similarities among people in a psychological way
• Psychology of individual differences

  Assumption that no two individuals are exactly alike in the manner of thinking, feelings, and behavior
• Demographics


  Statistical characteristics of people like age, gender, religion or socioeconomic status
• How men have been categorized

  • Gender differences (men were the hunters while women were the gatherers)
  • Social groups or affiliations (education, caste, and class)
  • Occupations (educators, doctors, IT professionals, businessmen)
• Uniqueness


  • Able to make connections with other people; create innovations and novel solution to problems; make a positive impact and help people by being the source of joy and inspiration
• Sharing experiences


  Learning is considered as a social activity since it involves both the formal and informal methods of gaining knowledge from others
• Social Learning Theory


  People learn from each other through observation, modeling, and imitation
• Conditions for Effective Modeling

  • Attention
  • Retention
  • Reproduction
  • Motivation
• Reciprocal Determinism


  The person's behavior and the world cause each other
• Sharing experiences


  • Discussions
  • Photos
  • Audio
  • Video
• Keeping a journal


  Helps in boosting your performance and productivity. It makes you reflect on your thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
• Benefits of keeping a journal

  • A way to vent or express safely
  • It enhances creativity
  • Recording good ideas
  • Habit formation
  • Mental health tool
• Blogging and vlogging are both used to keep track of one's activities; they can be done by writing or filming a video and uploading them online.
• The formation of the self-concept is based on the multi-dimensional perception of the self which includes the physical, spiritual, emotional, social and moral aspects.
• Self-complexity refers to the different ways in which a person thinks about himself/herself.
• Self-concept has three basic components: physical characteristics, personality traits and social identity.
• Self-esteem is the value that an individual places on himself/herself. It can either be positive or negative depending on the performance of the person and his/her interactions with others.
• Self-concept is a product of our interaction with other people. Charles Cooley coined the term looking glass self which stressed that the people around us could serve as mirrors that reflect how we see ourselves. Their reactions affect the formation of a person's self-concept.
• Self-awareness is the ability to know one's self extensively including your inner state and how your think.
• Social Learning Theory formulated by Albert Bandura posits that if a behavior is modeled and imitated, this can snowball into being imitated by others that can turn into acceptable behavior.
• Reciprocal determination emphasized that the behavior and the world cause each other. This signifies that once the behavior has become a habit and majority of the people are exhibiting the said behavior; becomes acceptable.
• Ask yourself why. Delay gratification, Take feedback constructively. Let go of biases. Use tools to know yourself. Reflect often.
• The retention happens when the behavior is remembered.
• Reproduction is the act of duplicating the behavior.
• Motivation is the push to repeat the behavior until it becomes a habit.