PSY325H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Centrality, Decision-Making, Counterfactual Thinking
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Self-assessment: motivation to reduce uncertainty about ones abilities or personal characteristics: uncertainty is reduced by obtaining an objective accurate picture of the self. Involves impartial search for objective facts not a biased search for preferred facts. Choosing difficult tasks versus easy task: key is diagnosticity of the task outcome or personality attribute. makes people: Prefer tasks or people that provide good information about their performance levels. Curious about how their personal future will turn out. Self-verification: motivation to verify ones preexisting self-conceptions. People will selectively process self- relevant information in a way that: verify or affirm self-conceptions that they are uncertain of, key is consistency between the task outcome or personality attribute and self-conceptions. Prefer tasks or people that confirm they are performing at the levels they expect to. Care about whether they are still the same as they always were.
