01:830:338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mirror Test, Contin, Affective Forecasting
3 Mar 2017
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Self-esteem how we feel about who we are. Social identity how we present ourselves to others. First develops in infancy make distinction between own body and everything else. Self-esteem sum of positive and negative reactions to self-concept; overall opinion of whether the self is worthy or unworthy. Global self-esteem composite of individual areas of self-esteem. Internally-based contingencies lower proneness to depression and anxiety. Low self-esteem people more likely to perform poorly and give up more easily after failure feedback than high self-esteem people. Compartmentalizing high self-esteem people focus on other areas of life in which things are going well. Outcomes of self-esteem coping with negative events. Self-complexity we have many roles and aspects to our self-concept. Defensive pessimism (norem, 1995) when facing a challenge, people expect to do poorly. Self-handicapping people create obstacles and excuses for themselves so that if they do poorly on a task, they can avoid blaming themselves.
