College education and Self-schema modification
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In a minimum of 250-300 words, explain how a college education will change or modify your self-schema.
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Through example and discussion, this solution explains how a college education could change or modify a person's self-schema. References are provided.
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1. In a minimum of 250-300 words explain how a college education will change or modify your self-schema.
Dating back to 1977, Hazel Rose Markus proposed that the self is a concept like any other concept and that a person forms cognitive structures about the self exactly like she or he does about other phenomena. These cognitive structures are about the self, and referred to as SELF-schemas. These self-schema help to organize how we see ourselves, mainly through guiding the processing of self-related information. If you see yourself as being a learned person, you will more likely take ...
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