Self Concept

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Self Concept

• How one views or feels about the self. This
  concept is learned as you experience the world
  through your senses and perception.

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Formation of the Self-Concept

• Built from information from others
• Built from information from ourselves
• Once a self-concept is formed, it is difficult to
  change
• How you view yourself and the way others view you
  can differ

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Intrapersonal Communication

• Self-talk or internal dialogue
• Thinking or worry
• Others can not know or see this process

• Perception is how you view the world around or
  outside.
• Perception involves your senses and can differ
  from how others view you.
• Hearing, touch, sight, smell and taste

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Communication Behavior

• The way you communicate with others is through
  behavior. This process involves each of the
  following.
• Values
• Beliefs
• Attitudes
• Feeling

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Self-Concept

• Values refers to your relatively permanent
  ideas of what is good or bad, worthwhile or not.
• Beliefs what you think is true based on logic.
• Attitudes refer to more specific application of
  your values. How you act.
• Feeling emotional responses to things such as
  events, people, places or situations

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Self-Disclosure

• This is the process of sharing personal
  information or feelings with others. This process
  is often difficult.
• This process can take place in three settings.
• Public Public-private Private
• Factors that influence self-disclosure include
• 1. The place
• 2. The person or group

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Communication Behavior

• People change their communication in direct
  response to the situation, place and people.
• Situation with the Dean, in trouble
• Place in class, after school, at Mass,
• People teachers, parents, friends

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Perception

• The process by which you filter and interpret
  what your senses tell you so that you can then
  create a meaningful picture of the world. People
  will often view the same thing or event
  differently.

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Perception

• Why do people agree or disagree?
• What affect does perception have in life?

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How Does it Work

• 1. Something affects your senses
• Sight
• Sound
• Taste
• Smell
• Touch

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Decoding the Message

• You interpret (decode) the sensation
• You assign meaning to what your senses take in
  and put meaning to
• What do your eyes see?

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Differences

• Why do people not have the same perception of the
  same thing, event or person?
• WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT and therefore WE LIVE
  DIFFEENT EXPERIENCES WHICH SHAPE OUR LIFE

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Differences

• 1. Physical differences
• 2. Past experiences and backgrounds
• 3. Present feelings and circumstances
• 4. Differences in using information
• 5. Differences in expectation

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Perception Pictures