4.7b Vocab

Overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us).

Our feelings of high or low self-worth.

Our sense of competence and effectiveness

A readiness to perceive ourselves favorably.

Excessive self-love and self-absorption.

A cultural pattern that emphasizes people’s own goals over group goals and defines identity mainly in terms of unique personal attributes.

A cultural pattern that prioritizes the goals of important groups (often one’s extended family or work group).

A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.

A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned.

A basic bodily requirement.