PSYC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Black Sheep, Motivated Reasoning
27 Dec 2017
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Self: a person"s particular nature or qualities that make a person unique and. Traits: characteristic ways that you think, feel, and act that make you different from. Nature of the self distinguishable from others. others. 3 primary components of the self: individual self- beliefs about our unique personal traits, abilities, preferences, tastes, talents, etc. What sets us apart from others: collective self- beliefs about our identities in specific relationships. Episcopalian, gay urban male, libertarian: relational self - beliefs about our identities as members of social groups to which we belong. doting husband, black sheep of the family. Self-schema: cognitive structures, derived from past experience, that represent a person"s beliefs and feelings about the self in particular domains relatively distinct from one another. Self-reference effect: we have a better memory for information related to ourselves. Self-complexity: the tendency to define the self in terms of multiple domains that are. High self-complexity: domains relatively non-overlapping or distinct from one another.
