PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chocolate Chip, Self-Control, Self Esteem (Song)
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Lecture 2: the self: overview, what is the self. The self shapes the social world and the social world shapes the self. Self knowledge: how do you obtain knowledge about yourself. Added: self regulation: how can i control my thoughts, feelings and actions. The more complex the organism the more sophisticated it"s self knowledge: organizational. The self allows us to organize information the information about yourself is easy for you to find, obtain, thus it is theorized that the self helps us to organize information. Self schemas: organize information about ourself how we feel, how behave, how we think. If you didn"t have this organization system, you would have trouble telling someone about yourself. Self reference effect hopes, dreams, aspirations people have this preference for the letters that are in their name. Ex: when you first started to drive, you consciously regulate how you grip the wheel, tensing certain muscles, how much pressure you put on the gas.
