PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Social Comparison Theory, Trait Theory
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It is comprises what we know about our selves. Self concept , self esteem , self identity. William james: two perspectives on the self how we perceive our self: the self is composed of our thoughts and beliefs about ourselves, or what james called the. Mirror test some primates can recognize in the mirror (the rouge test -self-recognition) Development of self-concept: child"s self-concept is concrete, with observable characteristics. Chart = definition, structure, important feature, task, role of others , basis of self esteem. It is used in setting the hope is to occur some time of change: higgins, actual- who you are, ought- who society believes you should be. Cycle of low self-esteem: 1. accepting negative evaluation, 2. decreased motivation, 3. more failures, 4. maintain low view of self. Performance: self esteem and school performance correlated but no causal relationship, self esteem has little impact on work performance. Happiness: strongly related to self esteem, low self-esteem related to depression.
