Chapter 4

Refers to how person thinks about, evaluates or perceives himself. It is an important and useful way to understand and improve performance and welfare.

• Self-perception

• Self-evaluation

• Self-concept

• Self-monitoring

Desire to magnify positive aspects of self-conceptions while isolating oneself from  negative feedback and information. 

• Self-concept

• Self-montioring

• Self-enhancement

• Self-evaluation

A concept of evaluation refers to •Degree to which people feel  answerable for their own  behaviors.

• Self-esteem

• self-efficacy

• Locus of control

• Locus

Is an intellectual process by which an individual selects, organizes and provides  meaning to the world around him.  

• Perception

• Self-evaluation

• Self-concept

• Attribution

Tendency to create wholes out of perceived parts.

• Figure-ground

• Closure

• Perceptual Grouping

• Proximity

The ability to retain information over an adequate period of time.

• Visual discrimination

• Visual figure ground

• Visual closure

• Visual memory

Is the process through which individuals link behavior to its causes to the intentions, dispositions, and events that explain why people act the way they do.

• Self-concept

• Self-perception

• Attribution

• Attitude

According to this principle, something must be present when a certain behavior is present and absent when the behavior is missing for it to be the cause of that behavior.

• Kelley's Attribution Theory

• Weiner's Model of Attribution

• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

• McClelland's Learned Needs Theory

When a person assign blames or a cause of  something to the person themselves and  does not take into account external issues.

• Attribution Bias

• Self-serving Bias

• Perceptual Errors

• Fundamental Attribution error

It focuses on how people  examine the causes of their  own behavior.

• Kelley's Theory

• Weiner's Theory

• Horal Kelley

• Bernard Weiner