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Confronting the vast amount of self-terminology, it comes as no surprise that definitions of self-concept are not easy to put down on paper in a concise way. Self-concept has been referred to as beliefs (Mercer 2011a; Canfield & Wells 1976; Pajares & Schunk 2002; Jopling 2002), knowledge (James 1890; Neisser 1988), a theory (Turner & Onorato 1999; Neisser 1988), a perception (L’Ecuyer 1975; Mercer 2011a; Mills 2014; Pajares & Schunk 2002) and cognitive appraisals (Hattie 1992) about our self. At first sight, all of the above terms are attempts to find synonyms for the word concept. But do they express precisely and equally well what a self-concept is? To find an answer to this, I would like to take up the approach by Ulric Neisser (1993) and start by taking a look at the word concept.