PSYC 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Hazel Rose Markus, Parenting Styles, Twin Study
15 Mar 2018
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Our beliefs and feelings about ourselves and others. Peer group, family (parenting styles) social groups. The scientific study oh how we think about one another. Sense of being yourself, is associated with your right hemisphere. Neuroscientist believe that the right hemisphere of our brain has an important role to play in the sense of being yourself. Eg one patient with right hemisphere damage failed to recognize that he owned and was controlling his left hand decety & sommerville, 2003. Hazel markus on self and culture the us thinks more in the i. Self schemas: the beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self relevant info. The are mental template that help organize our world. Self schemas affect how we perceive, remember and evaluate others, ourselves and the world around us. Those that make up our self-concept help us organize our experiences. Possible selves are the people we wish to become, or the people we fear of becoming.
