PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Capilano Suspension Bridge, Blood Sugar, Intersubjectivity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

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Psyc215 lecture 8 - self-construal process (continued) >what do you see when you look in the mirror. >how do you see yourself in relation to others. >in your life you"ve done/seen/experienced billions of things and it shapes who you are. How do we come to know the internal aspects of ourselves, such as attitudes, emotions, motives, traits, etc. We have to form an impression of ourselves and get to know ourselves. From observing our behaviour and the circumstances and then inferring things about ourselves. >you buy it when you go to the store, you choose to buy it, so you assume you like it. Similar to social perception: bottom up processing of perceptions of others. >how do you feel about the controversial conversations in modern politics. >more influenced by information that is cognitively accessible. Is the self-perception of attitudes influenced by the cognitive accessibility of behavioural. Linguistic manipulation chaiken & baldwin (1981) information? how.