From MyPsychLab WATCH: "Self-Concept

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From MyPsychLab WATCH: "Self-Concept"
To access this asset go to MyPsychLab and click on "Course Documents." Under the heading "Index of Multimedia," click on the "here" link.Select Chapter 4,The Self: Answering the Question "Who Am I?",and click on "Find Now." For the Chapter 4 items,click on the "Watch" item called "Self-Concept.")
Describe how the video treated the notion of developing competency.From the chapter,what would you call this growing sense of possible accomplishment? What implication would this have for possible selves?

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Definitions:

Positive Reinforcer

A stimulus which, when presented after a behavior, increases the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.

Conditioned Stimulus

A conditioned stimulus is a previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response without prior learning.

Discriminative Stimulus

A cue or signal in the environment that indicates that a specific behavior will result in a particular consequence.