PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Caffeine, Role Theory, Impulsivity

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2120
• Professor: Ward Struthers

Document Summary

In individualistic cultures people view themselves as unique and independent from others: their self-concepts centre around their attitudes, thoughts, feelings, etc, might describe self as honest, want to excel in school, etc. Includes belief that each gender is genetically predisposed to succeeding at different tasks: since women bear children they always taken on relationship-based and rearing roles while men take on a more bread-winner and physically-demanding roles. It is believed that men and women do these respective tasks because they"re intrinsically good at them: through these assigned roles, the self-concepts are shaped pushing them toward more gender-consistent self-perceptions. How do we come to know the self? pg. 168-178: our genes play a part in shaping who we are but the self-concept is created in context of social life, 3 sources of self-knowledge: 5: the nature, origins, and the functions of the self: appraisals, social comparisons, self-perceptions.