PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Terror Management Theory, Scientific Method, Asteroid Family
9 May 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Self is based on knowledge, experience and memory becomes your understanding of yourself. However, due to self bias friends and family can sometimes predict your behaviour better than you could. One of the ways to do this is the 20-statement test (20x - i am_____) which asks as a measure of self concept. When asked this question, people tap into the self-schema (an overlapping even diagram organizing a persons self knowledge and such. ) If a something happens that doesn"t fit with the schema, we typically ignore it. Likewise, we tend to only write down the positives about ourselves. The schema can be low-complexity or high- complexity schemas. People with high complexity schemas (bi cultural people) tend to have contradictory traits. Although this can lead to some uncertainties about self, it is helpful in times when the self-identity is threatened, because the other schema can work as a back up plan. In schemas, people typically record three times of selves:
