How are the actual self and possible self different?

What will be an ideal response?


The actual self is one's self-conception, whereas the possible selves are the selves that one could become, depending on choices and life experiences.

Psychology

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a. is always helpful in treating eating disorders. b. is not an appropriate setting for dealing with childhood sexual abuse. c. is usually not helpful in treating eating disorders. d. assists boys with these disorders more so than girls.

Psychology

The urine alarm treatment of enuresis is based on

a. modeling therapy. b. classical conditioning. c. operant conditioning. d. retention control training.

Psychology

Penelope listens attentively in her college classes and translates the information into new memories. The main memory process that accounts for the fact that Penelope is able to form new memories as information is encountered for the first time is:

a. storage b. retrieval c. encoding d. partitioning

Psychology

In psychological studies, randomization is used to ensure that:

a. there will be an independent and dependent variable. b. each person has an equal chance of being assigned to each group. c. the control group does not know the purpose of the study. d. the experimenter won't know who is in each group.

Psychology