PSY 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Motivation, Affective Forecasting

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 240
• Professor: Bonita London- Thompson

Document Summary

People who identify with two cultures may have different self-schema for each culture: various self-based processes can be traced to activities in specific areas of the brain, development of self concept. Seeing ourselves as distinct entity in the world and imagining what other think of us (can be measured with mirror recognition test: knowing who we are. Introspection: most people overestimate positives, have difficulty predicting reaction to emotional events (ex. Sociometer theory: (leary & baumeister) people are inherently social and desire for self-esteem is driven by primitive need to connect. Terror management theory: (greenberg, solomon & pyszczynski) humans are biologically programmed for life and self-preservation, conscious of and terrified by our own death: positive self-images productive, happy, healthy, successful people. 2: negative self-images depressed, pessimistic, prone to failure. Self-discrepancy theory: self-esteem is defined by the match vs. mismatch between how we see ourselves and how we want to see ourselves.