What are the changes in self-understanding? What is the meaning of self-concept? What is the meaning of barometric self-esteem?

PSYC 3551-Final Study Guide Changes in self-understanding  Abstract and ideal: Piaget’s theory (formal operation)  Think about possibilities, potential, what could be, social comparison  Understand self as abstract now vs. concrete  Differentiation and fluctuation: individuals actions vary by situation, does not change core of individual, but just how they act  Adolescents can be “multiple-selves”  Increase in self consciousness: heightened awareness of what others think about them  Constant need to know what others think of them  Awareness in the unconscious: feeling they cannot control, can control reactions but can’t control how you feel  Self integration: piece