PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Individualism, Name–Letter Effect, Terror Management Theory
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Pp 59-60 (affective forecasting), 61-62 self-perceptions of emotion), 65-66 (2-factor theory of emotion) Cocktail party affect tendency of people to pick a personally relevant stimulus out of a complex environment. Self is an important object of our own attention. Self-concept refers to the sum total of beliefs that people have about themselves. Hazel markus (1977) the self-concept is made up of cognitive models called self-schemas beliefs about oneself that guide the processing of self-relevant information: an individual"s total self-concept. It can shine on only one object at a time (ie. hunger), but can rapidly shift. William thompson self is biologically rooted. The lost self: pathologies of the brain and identity todd feinberg and julian keenan (2005) describe how the self can be transformed and destroyed by damages to the nervous system. Trying to use techniques to study the brain in action (pet, fmri) Humans, great apes chimps, gorillas, orangutans: only animals capable of self-recognition.
