PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Discrepancy Theory, Participant Observation, Ethnography
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A set of concepts and beliefs about oneself. The self influences how we think and behave. Information that is relevant to ourself is more easily recalled (the self refrence effect) unconscious tendency to prefer people or thing that resembles the self(implicit ecotism) The higher one is in self complexity the better able one are able to insulate from extreme emotional reponses, Actual self(the true self) the ideal self (the self one aspires to be) the ought self (the self one thinks one should be) Self discrepancy theory (we often experience discrepancies between our actual self and either our ideal self and our ought self)(when it occurs we tend to experience negative emotions, eg. actual self ideal self discrepancy: dejection. We see ourselves through the eyes of other people and incorpriate their views towards ours sense of the self.
