PSYB10H3 Lecture : Lecture 2
21 Oct 2011
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The self concept: your concept of who you are: everything you know about yourself (it includes your personality, moral values, identities-canadian, social roles-brother, athlete, etc) Measuring self-schema: implicit personality test: there are two buzzers that states either me or. Working self-concept: part of your self-concept that is actually accessible (what goes in it? recent concepts, concepts that are close to yourself) Self-esteem: global self-esteem: typical self-esteem, state self-esteem: it fluctuates based on each situation (i feel good now or i feel inferior to others right now, implicit self-esteem: Positive than participants self view, participants"s perceived regard was more positive than self view, and the participant"s perceived regard was lower than friend"s other view. Self-serving biases: self enhancement: the tendency to view ourself better-than-average on favourable characteristics (ex. Where does the self reside: prefrontal cortex becomes activated whenever we think about ourself, media prefrontal lobes (for self referential, right prefrontal lobe (for self-recognition)
