PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Positive Illusions, Self-Awareness, Semantic Network
17 Oct 2012
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Messy, studious), social roles (athlete, best friend: self-complexity: the depth and complexity of your self-concept. Self-evaluative maintenance: if someone close to you outperforms you in a particular domain then: you will be threatened if the domain is central to your self-concept, but proud if the domain is not central to your self-concept. Self-verification: the need to seek confirmation of one"s self-concept, even under negatives. Depression is related to ideal and actual self, anxiety is related to ought and actual self: self-esteem: self-evaluative component of self-concept. Implicit self-esteem: you associate the concept of good to your self. Sociometer theory: the need to belong is evolutionarily adaptive and self- esteem monitors the likelihood of social exclusion, an internal monitor of social acceptance/rejection. Perceived regard: how we believe we are viewed by others, we tend to underestimate how positively close others like us. Positive illusions: set of common overly favourable and unrealistic beliefs about the self (skills/competency, personal control, optimism)
