PSYC35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Johari Window, Group Dynamics, Personality Disorder
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Week #7 lecture #5: wednesday october 19, 2016. Some aspect we know ourselves better than other, other aspects others know us better. Have a general sense of what method was used to obtain the results. Meanings attached to a person by self and others that are based on personal characteristic and on ppl"s social roles and membership in various groups. Person can have multi selves stemming from a variety of identities (self-pluralism) Self-knowledge: definition: accurate self-perceptions about how one typically thinks, feels, and behaves, and awareness of how those patterns are interpreted by others (p. 606) Self-knowledge: importance is stressed by many religions and philosophical schools of thought, mentioned in self-help industry, researchers examine: What experiences you have and how you deal w/ them. Can"t never be 100% sure it"s accurate. Extent to which other people know us better than we know ourselves. Now new there is a very large and active community of research.
