PSYC 3030 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Know Thyself, Fidel Castro, John Steinbeck

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3030
• Professor: afdar

Document Summary

Three features of self (baumeister, 1986: self includes the body, self includes the social identity give yourself a label, self is the active agent you decide for yourself. Functions of selfhood: self is an interpersonal tool. Will help you connect with other people: self makes choices, self-regulation emotions and behaviours. Self-comparison from what you see between yourself and other people. Not exactly true that we are born without no sense of self: self-knowledge is obtained from others but it is heavily filtered through biases from others. Our lack of tendency to hear and process criticism: accuracy of self-knowledge. Is it possible to have accurate understanding of self-knowledge: yes, autobiography writers, self- concept is the most complete form of knowledge imaginable, psychoanalysts cannot obtain self-knowledge, self-concept is hard to obtain. Introspection is one way of developing self-knowledge: the process of looking inward and examining our thoughts and feelings, not everyone engages in introspection because everyone is busy and it is difficult.