PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Observational Error, Polio Vaccine, Daniel Kahneman

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Effects of the self on perception and memory. Self-reference effect: best way to remember a word is to think about how it relates to you. Markus" model of the self: self-schemas schemas: a way to understand the world (typical ways of thinking that guide our processing of information; lens through which you look at the world; affected by preconceptions, beliefs, etc. ) Self-schemas are the dominant way that we tend to think of ourselves: guide our interpretation and understanding of reality. Self-schemas in uence how quickly you think about or understand things: working self-concept. People have many self-schemas (e. g. independent, friend, husband, psychologist, etc. : important to us but can change at any given moment to guide our processing of information. Schemas that we use at any given moment are called the working self-concept. People came to the study and were asked about their preferences.

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