PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Who I Am (Abraham Mateo Album), Social Comparison Theory, Personal Identity

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Psy220: chapter 5 the self (lecture 4) Intragroup comparisons: judgements that result from comparisons between individuals who are members of the same group. Personal identity self-descriptions can be thought of as intragroup in nature it depends on which group you compare yourself to. Intergroup comparisons: judgements that result from comparisons between our group and another group. Thinking of ourselves at the social identity level attributes that members of our group shares, and what differentiates our group" from other groups. **when you think of yourself as an individual, the content of the self-descriptions is different when thinking of yourself as a member of a category. People describe themselves differently depending on whether the question asked implies situational specificity or not. Study by mendoza-denton (2001) participants given one of two different types of sentence- completion tasks. Open-ended prompts i am a(n) . person for self-definition as an individual resulted in responses that were trait-like or global.

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