PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Prefrontal Cortex, Dialectic, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Self concept => the cognitive representations of one"s own self, that is, the ideas or images that one has about oneself and how and why one behaves. [cognitive generalization: the self is a psychological construct that people create in order to help them understand themselves and their world better. The concept of the self is a product of human cultures: cultural practices => discrete, observable, objective, and behavioural aspects of human activities in which people engage related to culture, cultural worldviews => belief systems about one"s culture. Independent, separate entity with a composite construal of self more common in non-western, collectivistic cultures in which the individual is viewed as inherently connected or interdependent with others,an inseparable from a social context. Individuals focus on personal, internal attributes individual ability, intelligence, personality traits, goals or preferences expressing them in public and verifying and confirming them in private through social comparison. The self is unbounded, flexible, and contingent on context.