PSYC 2600 Lecture : Class 8.odt
29 Mar 2012
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Self-concept forms an answer to question, who am i? : development of the self-concept. Self-awareness not unique to humans (dolphins, great apes, magpies, elephants) Animal self concept: animal personality (sam gosling, animals experience emotion. Shy people desire friendships and social interactions but are held back by insecurities and fears. Shy people are not introverts: kagan"s research. Self-schemata: possible selves, ought selves, and undesired selves. Self-schemas: built on past experiences, guide info processing about the self, particularly in social interaction. Possible (future) selves: many ideas each person has about who they might become, hope to become, or fear they will become. Ideal self (what a person herself want to be) versus ought self (person"s understanding of what other"s want her to be) Self-esteem refers to your general evaluation of your self-concept along a good-bad or like-dislike dimension: how we feel about ourselves can vary from day to day, hour-to-hour, but always around some average level of self-esteem.
