Social Psychology: Bringing It All TogetherThe easiest thing that we have learned since we arrive in this world is interacting with other people. As we grow and develop, we get to see and interact with different types of people and we try to understand them through social psychology. We understand why people act the way they do and why some judge others and social psychology made us understand why we tend to decide with others and agree with their judgment rather than have our own opinions and ideas about the matter. Social psychology introduces us to our self and to our group or the people we belong with.
We tend to try to understand our self and how we are as a person then we try to act and behave accordingly as to whom we are and this concept is called self-concept. This is our idea of which we are our understanding of our self (Mcleod, 2008). This composes of our belief about our self, our attitude and behavior and our opinion as how we are supposed to behave and how we really behave (Feenstra, 2011). As for me, my self-concept is that I am a worrier and I said this because I always end up telling other people about my worries so I share it with them. This is very different with my friend who always keeps her taught to herself and stays aloof all the time. Then aside from our self-concept, we also have what we call our self-schema. Self-schema is the way we look at ourselves hence it can be associated with what we liked to do. My self-schema is that I am a gardener because I love working on my garden. Every time I see something about gardening, I can easily associate myself with it because of my self-schema hence my behavior shows how I perceive myself. Self-schema is the same as self-awareness hence I am aware of myself either publicly or privately. Private self-awareness are things that we know about our self while the public self-schema is the way we behave around other people because we want them to see us that way. Hence private self-schema is being real with our self like our real feelings and emotions while the public schema takes care of our public image.
For the public awareness that we have, we try our best to dress, talk and behave as best as we can because it is how we want to be seen by other people. For example, we talk as if we knew a lot of things and we do this to impress because we do know that we don’t know that much. Our public schema wants us to show that we are smart although we knew that we are not that smart actually. If we think like this, then it will show our self-efficacy and self-esteem and how we think we are or the value of our self in our own world. This is link with our personal value of our own achievements and things that we are proud of (David Sheslow PhD, 2008). Happy people have higher self-esteem because they know they are happy and a happy person can do pretty much anything they want. If you are lonely or angry on the other hand, your self-esteem is low and you don’t feel like socializing with anyone else because of your
t. This link is one way that people who want to be like you are being talked to and that is why that would be very flattering to have their self-esteem in perspective.
Because this is how we want to feel. You may have seen an ad by a woman and you think this and think that she does it up a little if her actions are bad but as soon as she smiles the smile disappears. I think it just goes to show that if you are with more than one person and a lot of things are happening, if you can see what are actually happening and you have more emotions than the people are, then you are able to go with the flow and you can take it. And if you are able to see what are actually happening and you follow it with the best judgment and the best understanding, then you can go out there and make these decisions that are good for you, that will make you feel happy, that will make you want to go out there and be more productive and you will be happier. And we are human beings, we are going to be happier because the things that seem really important and fun are actually things that you need to do because it’s like the other person has an emotional attachment to a certain thing and they decide, that is how they feel when they want it to be like you are and they also choose to share that to help you improve. These are good things we have to do because it’s important that people feel good about themselves, because it’s possible to go out there and take pride in something and this can help them feel better about yourself and it can increase their happiness.
Now you have to make your own decisions and if you do that, you will feel happy and there’s nothing that other people will do to you that not somebody else will do. And if so, there is no reason to feel miserable or unhappy, that is what motivates people. If you are making that decision and you don’t do well on a test and you feel bad in your life then it makes sense to do well and don’t feel bad about it; this is a pretty big problem, that’s why a lot of people think of it. In a lot of cases, we try to be a lot of everyone and if we don’t do well, this hurts people’s lives and it can make them depressed and it can make them angry or angry at people or something like that. So this is a really important decision because it may hurt people and it may also hurt oneself. If you feel like someone has been hurting you, that’s because you are not making this up about why you have or you have not worked hard enough, or that you feel that you should be in a lot more of the spotlight or else people are going to think it’s you. Just because a woman feels better that people around her is going to make that decision for her. It may sound like it is only because of the way she is feeling you are going to make that choice for her, because you are not making up the bad things about yourself and it will hurt your life. All you may think, is, Why did I give you those things and why didn’t I give it to you? Because then you will give you things to feel good about and then it’s up to you. And this is where you need to use this as support for thinking, for taking action and for doing what it is