Psychology 2070A/B Chapter 5: Chapter-5-Self-Knowledge

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Sarah Stanton

Document Summary

Chapter 5 self-knowledge and the need to maintain self-esteem. William james (1842-1910: described basic duality of our perception of self, composition of the self, one"s thoughts and beliefs about oneself known , me , active processor of information knower , i . Known aspect of the self self-concept contents of the self, our knowledge about who we are. Knower aspect as self-awareness act of thinking about ourselves. Schema and detects errors: body of knowledge that helps us organize what we know about the social world. Influence the information we notice, think about, remember. Self-schemas: organized body of knowledge about ourselves our attitudes, likes and dislikes, personality traits. Self-reference effect: tendency for people to remember info better if they relate it to themselves. Integrating info with out self-schemas helps us organize info better and connect it to other info about ourselves. More likely that we"ll remember it later.