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Personal Reflection Paper

Chris Sanchez

January 5, 2011

Psychology 400

David Lagerson

Personal Reflection paper

Self and the concept of self is an interesting topic to many including, psychologist sociologist, philosophers and countless others trying to define the idea of self and what it means to each individual. Every individual has a different idea and thought about self and how self makes up their entire being. Self is made of the human’s own biology his or her cognitive process and perception of one self compared to others. This paper is going to look at the concept of self and how this relates to real-life situations affects a person’s self efficacy and esteem.
According to Myers (2010) the concept of social …show more content…

Individual’s more often then not want to appear consistent with their convictions and actions and never incontinent so he or she will attempt to correspond these together for one self presentation and feel a cognitive dissonance. Which is a feeling of his or her convictions and or actions not matching. This will cause a lack of harmony and tension (Myers, 2010). An example of this is would be cigarette smokers being less likely than the non-smoker recognizing and consider that smoking would be hazardous to one’s health.
The confidence in your own abilities and functioning with a sense that you will be effective and competent performing a task is self-efficacy. Ultimately, it is an individual’s belief in their own ability and trying to make behaviors consistent. It is so important to have self-efficacy because the individual has to believe that he or she can and will create a successful outcome by their actions and behavior. If not the motivation and their inner drive during hard times would be non existing due to fact of failing would be the only outcome. Motivation is a key factor when discussing someone’s efficacy. A person’s motivation will either rise or fall due to the individual’s efficacy and relate to their helplessness, anxiety and or depression. Self-efficacy is easily confused with self-esteem yet they are very

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