PSY 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White Noise, Debbie Downer, Big Secrets
11 Sep 2017
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The person __________________ or holding the attitude. A prefix for names of activities and attitudes, where the object is the agent: self-love, self-hatred, self-promotion. __________________ that a person attaches to himself or herself most firmly (aka self-concept, aka identity). Two aspects of the self: 1. The _____________ (me): consists of thoughts and beliefs about ourselves (self-concept; who we are: 2. The ______________ (i): the processor of information (self awareness of what we are becoming). Infants develop a rudimentary self-concept, around age 2. Moves from concrete (focused on observable characteristics) to more abstract (focused on psychological characteristics) Research suggests that only a limited number of animals recognize their own reflection: great apes, dolphins, killer whales, elephants. Bad mood on a monday morning why: case of the mondays, bus was late, had to scrape ice off the windshield, or, ______________________ Ability to predict our emotional responses to future events: e. g. , __________________________ We overestimate the strength and duration of our emotional reactions =
