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Our sense of self changes throughout our lifetime. It changes as we interact with our environment. There are many significant events or experiences that create change. The experience of attending college and the information we learn in college is one example. In a minimum of 200 words, please explain how a college education will change or modify your self-schema.

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This solution briefly validates how our sense of self changes throughout our lifetimes. The notion of self-schema is depicted.

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As you explain how a college education will change or modify your self-schema, please note that a schema is "a mental structure we use to organize and simplify our knowledge of the world around us" (info.med.yale.edu/psych/3s/3-S_manuals/3S_general.doc). College education opens us to lots of diversity of other cultures, people, ideologies, value systems, and political beliefs, to name a few.

A schema growing up about diet could be based on just meat and potatoes. However, taking a college ethics class about vegetarianism might change ...

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