PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13.1-13.3: Affective Forecasting, Harold Kelley, Bradley Effect

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Essentially is the study of individual thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and how they are influenced by social context. Describe the self-concept and how schemata guide our interpretation of people"s behaviour, including our own. Explain self-esteem and how people manage their self-esteem. Describe the functional significance of self-esteem management strategies. Attributes that you believe define you are known as self-schemata and the combinations of them and other beliefs hold about yourself, represent your overall self-concept; refering to beliefs that people have about themselves. One"s self-concept comprised of many different components or self-schemas. Self-schemas are beliefs individuals hold about themselves affecting their behaviours, thoughts, feelings, and interactions. Some attributes which are of more important to an individual"s self-concept are referred to as schematicity. For example, if a self-schema is central to self-concept, the individual is said to be schematic with respect to the attribute. On the other hand, if it is not very important, it is referred to as aschematic.