PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cognitive Psychology, Dopamine Receptor D4, Asian Canadians
9 Mar 2020
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Person x situation: crisis in personality psychology, ethical issues about creating (powerful) situations, rise of cognitive psychology. Review: multiple selves, the working self-concept, how does self-knowledge get activated, frequency, recency, contextual activation, chronic accessibility/ core self . Content of self knowledge: attributes, tall, roles, professor, relationships, mother, daughter, activities, goals. Structure of self-knowledge: integration, self-concept clarity (campbell et al 1996, extent to which self-beliefs are, clearly and confidently defined internally consistent and stable there is a core (cf. Conceptual representation of the self by culture markus and kitayama 1991. Independent self-schema = tasks that encourage reflection of individual preferences, goals, abilities. Interdependent self-schema = tasks that require fitting in. Asian canadian, they showed higher accessibility to person- related words vs collective: [personal word like confident" ; collective word like teammate", 40-minute delay/recognition (was this shown before?) Response time: self-reference effect: reflects elaboration of schema in long term memory/core self (chronic, core self.
