PSY310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Erik Erikson, Peer Support, Gender Role
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Self-conception: collection of traits and attributes that individuals use to describe or characterize themselves. Self-esteem: the degree to which individuals feel positively or negatively about themselves. Identity: sameness and continuity of a person"s psychological functioning, interpersonal behaviour, and commitments to roles, values, and beliefs. Sheer variety of different traits: more abstract. Traits and attitudes vs. concrete behaviours: more differentiated. Perspective-taking and contradictions: more future-oriented, more integrated. Motivation to develop an internally consistent, coherent sense of self. Adding additional cognitions: normative to behave inconsistently across roles. Psychological advantages: allows for construction of possible selves (hypothetical self) Ideal self: who i wish to be . Ought self: who i think i should be . Feared self: who i don"t want to be . Important for planning, setting priorities, self-regulation: allows for distinction between actual self ( who am i? ) and possible selves ( who could i be? ) Motivation to avoid that feared possible self.
