PSYC 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Motivation, Autobiographical Memory
12 Mar 2014
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From one moment to the next, he could improvise new identities: in social settings, he would go into a veritable delirium of identity-making and seeking. However, when left alone, he was allowed to relax. This highlights the difference between the private inner self and the. Outer social self: the abcs of self: affect, behaviour, and cognition. The self-concept: self-concept is the sum total of beliefs that people have about themselves. This is made up of cognitive elements called self-schemas, beliefs about oneself that guide the processing of self-relevant information. Self-schemas are to self-concept like books to a library: for any specific attribute, some people may be schematic with respect to it it is a conspicuous aspect of their self-concept while others are aschematic. For an attribute like body weight, schematics may experience that mundane events like a trip to the supermarket may trigger thoughts about the self.
