PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Personality Psychology, Dependent And Independent Variables, Ender Wiggin
9 Jun 2016
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There are 3 main variables (person, situation and behaviour, where behaviour is the dependent variable) The effect of p on b, depends on s. The effect of s on b, depends on p. The approach partly inspired by crisis in personality psychology. The way we come to know ourselves is highly context dependent > on the situation, and the person we are describing ourselves to . A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind. - william james. Phenomenal self (jones & gerard, 1967) > a sense of continuity, Small portion of self knowledge that is the current focus on awareness. Spontaneous self (mcguire, 1984) > the self that we are now is the self that distinguishes us from others. A person notices his/her distinctive traits and personal characteristics more readily because of their greater informational richness and value for discriminating self from others:
