PSYO 3280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Henry Alline
4 Dec 2012
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All individuals have possible selves and they can reflect on them. We have an ability to look into the past and that helps motivate you now. Even if that"s not exactly how it happened, how you imagined it affects your current behaviour. What they are afraid of becoming: incentive for future behaviour. Possible selves are incentives for future behaviour. Your understanding of what"s possible and what"s likely motivates you with: evaluative and interpretive context for current view of self incentive. Possible selves provide a context of additional meaning for the individual"s current behaviour; possible selves furnish criteria against which outcomes are evaluated. Doing an assignment and getting a grade back) look at current behaviour and assess that behaviour on what you expect it to be. One student gets a 90%, isn"t happy with it, another student gets a. Possible selves are inventive and constructive (individualized) but also socially determined and constrained.
