PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Implicit-Association Test, Burning House, Procedural Knowledge

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2B03
• Professor: Richard B Day

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Part vi: what personality does: learning, thinking, feeling and knowing. Chapter 17: what you know about you: the self. William james noted that the self can have two different meanings. I mysterious entity that does the observing and describing. Eg/ when you try to describe how you feel deep down inside about knowing you are friendly. The littler person in the head (homunculus) or the soul, which experiences your life and makes decisions. The self that is doing the looking (hilgard: me a sort of object, which can be observed and described. Eg/ when you describe yourself as friendly . Collection of statements you can make about yourself. The self that is being looked at (hilgard) Collectivists cultures view the self as embedded in a larger social context of obligations and relationships. Two ways this theme has played out in modern research.