PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Interpersonal Attraction, Ego Depletion, Parachuting
10 Aug 2015
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Self knowledge: self-concept: the content of the self or what we know about who we are, self-awareness: the act of thinking about ourselves, e. g. while thinking about your self- concept. Self expansion motive: self-expansion: a. b. increase in potential efficacy is pleasurable in its own right. The personal self resources: material possessions, knowledge, and social assets. 1: perspectives: scripts and other cognitive biases. Identities: personality, memories, and roles that separate people from the physical and social world. Mechanisms: engage in novel and arousing activities, e. g. after skydiving acquires this experience and the sense of adventure, relationships, e. g. lucy"s friend b. Inclusions of other in the self: i. ii. cognitive overlap between self and other. Feeling" as if the other"s resources, perspectives and identities are one"s own: resources: e. g. cohabitation, partners learnt from each other, social status and friends, perspectives: view situations from other"s perspective.
