PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cocktail Party, Egocentric Bias, Type Physicalism
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Representation of the self-concept: the content of our self-knowledge, self-schemas: structured set of knowledge and beliefs about oneself that guides the processing of self-relevant information. Core things that are important to you that skew how you see the world and the decisions you make: egocentric tendencies. We evaluate other people based on the type of person we are (ex an athlete is likely to judge others based on their athletic ability) We have a tendency to remember things that have more significance to our own lives (ex someone on a diet asked to remember details from a scene might recall what was on everyone"s plate: self-reference effect. People are much more likely to remember words associated with the self vs semantic, phonemic or structural associations: cocktail party effect. Still able to pick out information to do with the self despite the noise and multiple conversations: egocentric bias. An individual"s set of beliefs and knowledge about him or herself.
