CMN 1148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Self-Image, Social Comparison Theory, Mindset
15 Oct 2016
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• Two spirited people
• Through epath, e a get a sese of others’ eperiee
• Two spirit- notion of having both male and female characteristics in a person
• Perspective of both of those worlds- you carry both gendered traits
• You can possess both personalities
• In first nations history, people who were deemed two spirited were deemed very special
• Desirable role in society
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• Our ultiple selves…
• As our self concept (ideal self, self image, self esteem) develops it divides into
• Self image (our views of our self)
• Body image disturbance- vision of ourselves physically is quite different from what
others would see
• Looking glass self (how we think others see us)
• What other people see is not necessarily more real than what we see
• We draw on what other people see of us to determine our real self
• Ideal self the perso e’d like to e
• Real self (the person we actually are)
• Combination of how others see us plus some undetermined reality
• Hard to determine but more or less authentic representation of who we are
• **Self concept-thoughts and feelings of our identity. Self image is narrower and would fit
within self concept and tends to emphasize the physical self- hat e look like. The’re er
closely related
• We’re apale of adaptig ourselves to different situations. Ex: behaviour at work vs. out for
beer with friends
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• …. Ca soeties clash
• If there’s a ig gap etee our ideal self and your self image,
this can lower self esteem
• Ex: Homer has a gap between his self image and real self
• He sees himself as better than he is- he sees himself very
close to his ideal self which is not accurate
• Homer is actually seeing himself as quite close to his ideal
self.
• The loser that the’re aliged, the ore e ko ourseles, the ore authentic we are, and
the less distress we may experience
• People with high self esteem tend to think well of others
• When we expect to be rejected- we may behave in ways that would lead to that rejection (ex:
ehaiours like distaig ourself, do’t sho up, et.
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Document Summary
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