PSYO 3280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Henry Alline

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 3280
• Professor: Tim Jukes

Document Summary

All individuals have possible selves and they can reflect on them. We have an ability to look into the past and that helps motivate you now. Even if that"s not exactly how it happened, how you imagined it affects your current behaviour. Possible selves are incentives for future behaviour. Your understanding of what"s possible and what"s likely motivates you with incentive: evaluative and interpretive context for current view of self. Possible selves provide a context of additional meaning for the individual"s current behaviour; possible selves furnish criteria against which outcomes are evaluated. Doing an assignment and getting a grade back) look at current behaviour and assess that behaviour on what you expect it to be. Possible selves are inventive and constructive (individualized) but also socially. What they did was some research and got 210 males and females to report on determined and constrained their self-concept and to tell what is possible of them.