PSYC 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Collectivism, Ingratiation, Transactional Leadership
27 Sep 2013
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Ch 5 self-knowledge: how we come to understand ourselves. Self concept: our knowledge about who we are. Self awareness: the act of thinking about ourselves. We are not the only species with a sense of self: ex. As we mature, we place less emphasis on physical characteristics and more on psychological states and on considerations of how other people judge us. Self schemas: mental structures that help us organize our knowledge about ourselves. Self reference effect is the tendency for people to remember information better if they relate it to themselves. Self regulatory resource model: suggests that self control is a limited resource, you can spend a limited amount of energy devoted to self control in one task makes it difficult to exert control on a subsequent task. Masako owada was a brilliant career diplomat in the foreign ministry, educated at harvard and.
