PSYCO347 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Existential Crisis, Unconditional Love, Physical Attractiveness

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO347
• Professor: Jay Brinker

Document Summary

Self-concept the perso(cid:374)"s attri(cid:271)utes a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ho a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat the self is. (cid:894)who, (cid:449)hat i a(cid:373), (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e, do(cid:895) Perception of one"s self: the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s (cid:271)elief a(cid:271)out hi(cid:373)self or herself, i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludi(cid:374)g. Self-perceptions (interpretation: assumptions about ourselves based on observations about our thoughts, feeling and behaviors, maintaining a sort of mental filling system of self-related information. Self-schema: an organized network of information about the self, influences, what we attend to, how we interpret it, what we encode, how efficiently the information is integrated, what we recall. Self-verification: how our self-concepts translate our experiences, our human tendency to seek out and pay attention to information that confirms or verifies our self-concept. Include information that is not about the self: deployment of attention task. Summary: self-verification + self enhancement helps people maintain a self-concept that is more positive than negative. Individualist self-concept rely primarily on personality traits, whereas collectivist more frequently describe themselves in terms of the social group to which they belong.