PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Know Thyself, Tabula Rasa, John Donne
14 Mar 2018
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Student, extrovert, canadian: self-awareness (the knower or the i, as we get older we get to know ourselves better, ex. A 5-year-old would say their mom knows them best whereas a. Self-knowledge: self-knowledge comes from, self-comparison, feedback from others, when you were born were you born as a blank slate, not completely , perception of what other people think. Introspection has some limitations: people don"t engage introspection often, reasons for some of our behaviours are hidden from our conscious awareness. Healthy self-knowledge: according to taylor & brown (1988), good mental health includes several systematic distortions, we distort reality because we don"t want to think about the negative that could happen in our lives, ex. We won"t be a victim of drunk driving: exaggerating positive self-evaluation, exaggerating perception of control, we think most things in our lives are under control, ex.
