PSY220H1 Chapter : CH5 Textbook Notes
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Chapter 5 the person in the situation: self-concept, gender and. Dispositions are consistencies across time and settings in a specific type of feeling, thought, and/or action, which make individuals different from other people. Self-esteem: people"s judgments of their own worthiness. Self-concept refers to all information about the self in memory. Contains memories of one"s past behaviour, expectations for one"s future. Identify refers to characteristics that individuals think define them and make up their most important qualities. Attitudes and values e. g. conservative or liberal, religious or non-religious. Social comparison is a way that we evaluate and define ourselves. With self-perception, we infer our attitudes and feelings from our own experiences and behaviour. Spontaneous self-concept: aspects of identity that are in conscious awareness at a given point in time. Changes in response to personal and situational factors. Accessibility of a particular feature of the self will depend on how recently it has been activated.
