PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Ingratiation
21 Sep 2014
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The self: what is the self, by definition, the self is the individual viewed as both the source and the object of reflexive behavior, as such, the self is both active and passive, what is so social about the self, humans are social animals, the self is constructed from social information, our social behaviors are influenced by self related factors, the number and order of the list of traits that an individual possesses can tell a lot of about that person, this technique was developed by gordon in (1968, on average people list of 10 traits. The self concept: self concept: the content" of the self or the knowledge about who we are, helps determine how individuals will behave, inconsistency between self concept and experience evokes anxiety and threat, how do researchers measure the content of the self, self schemas, cognitive generalizations about the self, derived from past experiences, that organize and guide processing of self related information (markus, 1977)
