PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cognitive Map, Vending Machine, Social Comparison Theory
5 Mar 2017
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Positive appraisals of how others see us. Set of beliefs an individual uses to conceptualize his or her self. Self-schema is a reflection of the invariance people have discovered in their own social behavior. Self schema is the way the self has been differentiated and articulate in memory. Self-schemas direct behavior to confirm the self-view and to prevent episodes that generate feedback that might disconfirm that self-view. Self-schemas generate motivation to move the present self toward a desired future self. Tolman emphasized the idea of cognitive map of their environment in which particular goals may be found. The idea of cognitive map offers the organism a degree of persistent and consistent pattern of behaviors. I-p: divided to many regions which represent a potential need of the person. Needs create a state of tension that we are motivated to reduce. Tension is the motivational construct that lewin used for internal motivation of the person.
