PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Cocktail Party, Self-Perception Theory, Borderline Personality Disorder
16 May 2012
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Images or representations that we want others to have of us. Something that is not necessarily entirely stable; it changes over time. Maybe the idea that there is a self is not accurate; there could be multiple selves (ideal self, public self, etc) and all of those selves could be different. There also seems to be an inner core self; your true self. It is something that all human beings have. Sullivan says that we need to know that we have a self, to have a self. Being conscious of the self might be a precondition for a self. (2) At one level, it is thought that it will be important to have a sense that your self belongs to a certain species. So if you want to reproduce, you will choose someone of the same species. This is what one of the functions of a self is thought to be.
