Psychology 2720A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hazel Rose Markus, The Need, Discrepancy Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Amanda De Vaul- Fetters

Document Summary

Chapter 5: self-knowledge and the need to maintain self-esteem. The self: people"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)s of (cid:449)ho the(cid:455) are a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) the(cid:455) differ fro(cid:373) others: extremely important determinants of their emotions and actions. The self-concept: all information about the self in memory, very extensive. Identity: the specific characteristics that people think define them (more limited than self-concept). Self-esteem: people"s judge(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts of their o(cid:449)(cid:374) (cid:449)orthi(cid:374)ess (cid:894)(cid:449)hether the(cid:455) are good or deficient people). Hazel markus (1977) suggested that people possess self-schemas in certain domains, organize existing information and influence the processing of new information: self-schema: set of (cid:271)eliefs a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)tatio(cid:374)s a(cid:271)out o(cid:374)e"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour i(cid:374) a (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) domain. Introspection: looki(cid:374)g i(cid:374)(cid:449)ard a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:374)g the (cid:862)i(cid:374)side i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374)(cid:863) that o(cid:374)l(cid:455) (cid:455)ou ha(cid:448)e about your thoughts, feelings, and behaviour. People evaluate themselves and compare their behaviour to personal standards. People do not rely on introspection very often because sometimes people are not consciously aware of the reason for their thoughts/feelings/behaviour, and self- awareness tends to make us uncomfortable.