PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Comparison Theory, Terror Management Theory, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

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U6 l18: personality and social psychology: the self. 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. Describe the functional significance of self-esteem management strategies. Most people from individualistic cultures have an independent self-concept in which they view the self as distinct, autonomous, self-contained, and endowed with unique dispositions. Things that increase your self-esteem would also improve other"s opinions of you. Public feedback affects a person"s level of self-esteem but private feedback does not evolutionary, in that others" acceptance of and willingness to cooperate with us was essential to our survival in the ancestral environment. Self-serving cognition general beliefs about self that serve to enhance self-esteem. Better-than-average effect most people rate themselves on most dimensions as better than the average person. Describe personal and situational attributions and the types of information used in making such judgements.