PSY 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Self Esteem (Song), Social Comparison Theory, Feedback
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Self awareness: the maintenance and promotion of self is most important, varies depending on psychological state, mood, situation, and personality traits, private vs public self-awareness. Private tends to lead to greater behavior (less aware)/belief consistency (higher esteem) (essay and mirror study) Public self-awareness leads to greater conformity and adherence to prevailing social standards. Chronic self-awareness can lead to loss in self esteem. Suggests people have limited resources in which they can control their behaviors. Feedback loop takes place in order to maintain the self. Test operate test: self-discrepancy theory. Suggests that when individuals experience a self-discrepancy (between ideal and actual self), they can be either motivated to improve or be deflated if the discrepancy is too large. Within the self-discrepancy theory, if discrepancy is considered manageable, the self will be motivated to change towards the. Within the self-discrepancy theory, if discrepancy is too large, the self will be discouraged and likely give up true: social comparison theory.
