PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Self Esteem (Song), Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Likert Scale

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: Dave Miranda

Document Summary

There is some uctuation about who you are and how you feel about yourself, but it tends to remain mostly the same. Ex. you are different now than you were 5 years ago but you are still you. Self concept is one aspect of the self > the known or the me. Self-awareness is the second aspect of the self > the knower or the i. Individual sense of identity is created by combining these two aspects. Self-concept: an individual"s overall beliefs about his or her own attributes . In uence on awareness (i. e. the information we notice in the social world) Get better at detecting qualities in others that you feel you have/that your desire. In uence on perception (i. e. how we process social information) Changes as we age: tends to be more concrete during childhood (emphasizes visible or physical characteristics) but becomes more abstract as we age (focuses on psychological characteristics)