PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mortality Salience, Positive Feedback, Mock Execution

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO241
• Professor: Jeff Schimel

Document Summary

Terror management theory (culture & self-esteem: the birth and death of meaning (1962- revised in 1971, the denial of death (1974 pulitzer prize, escape from evil (1975) Becker"s starting point was to ask 2 fundamental questions: how are we as humans the same as other animals, a basic drive for self-preservation; A life force: survival and reproduction e. g. , alive & aron ralston, how are we as human beings different from other animals, our ability to think; we have a big. These cognitive abilities have some important consequences for us: freedom from reactivity + (a positive thing) We can understand our situation and come up with a variety of different resolutions: self-consciousness + We know that we exist (ex: we can sit in a class and think about the fact that we are sitting in a class); we know what we are doing while we are doing it.