PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bradley Effect, Cognitive Dissonance, Classical Conditioning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Dr.Ada Mullett

Document Summary

Describe the self-concept and how schemata guide our interpretation of people"s behaviour, including our own. Explain self-esteem and how people manage their self-esteem. Social psychology: study of how someone"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the social context. Self-schema: beliefs people have about themselves that guide how they process self-relevant info how they store and categorize info about themselves. Self-concept: perception of self, including thoughts, knowledge, feelings, and ideas about oneself. Self-concept is like a library, and self-schema the books. Schematicity is how important a self-schema is to a person"s self-concept, while aschematis is not having a schema for a particular categorization or situation. These also affect how we judge and view others, and how we remember pas events. Introspection is looking inward towards ones thoughts or feelings, some argue we are not always really aware of these thoughts or reasons behind them though. Affective forecasting: predicting how you would feel about a future emotional even.