PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Asian Canadians, Social Comparison Theory, The Need

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYB10H3
• Professor: Elizabeth Page- Gould

Document Summary

The nature of the self we are. o o implications. Self concept: the contents of the self; that is our knowledge about who. Self awareness: the act of thinking about ourselves. These two concepts combined create a coherent sense of identity. Self concept clarity has important cognitive and emotional. Self-reference effect: the tendency for people to remember. Self schemas: mental structures that help organize our knowledge. When people are motivated to see themselves as possessing a desire. Integrating information with our self schemas helps us organize it better. Self regulatory resource model: the idea that people have a limited amount of energy to devote to self-control and that spending it on one task limits the amount that can be spent on another task. Independent view of the self: defining oneself in terms of one"s own. Interdependent view of the self: defining oneself in terms of one"s.