Psychology 2720A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Background Noise, Figure Skating, Thought Suppression
16 Oct 2017
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Chapter 5: the self understanding ourselves in a social context. The origins of the self: gallup (1977) studied how other species have a rudimentary sense of self. Researchers placed a mirror in the cage of the animals, then once they become familiar with it, they are anaesthetized and an odorless red dye is painted on its (cid:271)(cid:396)o(cid:449) o(cid:396) ea(cid:396) (cid:894)(cid:862)(cid:396)ouge test(cid:863)(cid:895) Chimpanzees and orangutans touch the area that is marked; gibbons do not. Chimps and orangutans have a rudimentary self-concept, along with dolphins, an. The content of the self: self-schemas: self-schemas: an organized body of knowledge about self (ex. Half participants were told that introversion is associated with personal success; other half were told that extraversion is associated with success. Self-concept clarity was not as strongly linked to self-esteem for japanese. Japanese students did have a lower self-concept clarity than canadians participants as it was for canadians.
